When you are doing music videos through the '90s, which I did, and the 2000s, you were put in the position, really, as an independent filmmaker. You were being financed by a major record company or a minor record company or whatever.
The music video, Lil Nas X, he asked me to be in the 'Panini' music video. It was crazy. I was just listening to the song and I was like, okay, this is going to be my first music video but it was really fun.
I was an extra in a Tia Carrere music video.
My new music video, 'My Life' featuring Eminem and Adam Levine, the only person in the actual video who you can physically make out besides myself and Adam Levine is Andre Dirrell.
I love making videos for my music, you can literally do anything. It's like you can write a song about anything; you can also write a video that is the weirdest thing you can relate to the song, and I find that quite cool.
There's a lot of variety in our gigs, our records, our mixtapes, and our videos.
The most difficult thing about music videos is that a lot of young filmmakers come into the medium, and they have so many different ideas, but they need to understand what the musician wants.
I've always dreamed of doing a music video.
I paid attention to the music industry and watching a lot of stuff on TV, behind-the-scenes stuff on old DVDs, and paying attention to interviews from artists and rappers and just really watching a lot of stuff as a kid.
Shooting a music video sometimes can be a job.
If you look at the 'Casi Nada' video, I'm, like, a good girl.
It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos.
Shooting the 'Torn' music video was a dream come true.
Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun.
Gwen Stefani's style and flow I just love. She is so cool to me!
I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
Musically, I wear many hats. I'm the social media director. I conceptualise the videos, write the songs, do the press. I'm not a major label act.
'Take It EZ' was actually the first video I ever produced for.
My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.
I grew up falling in love with music videos and those images: Hype Williams and Mark Romanek, David Fincher and Diane Martel and Paul Hunter, just from the video side. I grew up also watching a lot of independent films and foreign films.
My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.
I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.
I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.
Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name.
I've been a fan of Dave Meyers and his music videos.
