Music Video Storytelling Quotes

'Take It EZ' was actually the first video I ever produced for.

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.

I'm very conscious that a music video is beyond just a promotional tool for a song. It takes a song to the next level and it gives a song a new life.

I've been a fan of Dave Meyers and his music videos.

I think the key to directing a great music video is in making sure the song is great, and if it is, then it becomes really fun.

Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.

Some people draw a line between music videos and short films, looking down on music videos as a format, but there's so much potential in music videos.

Grizzly Bear's 'Knife' is one of the best videos of all time - everything Encyclopedia Pictura has done is really incredible.

I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters.

I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it was never a step to something else. I approached it seriously.

As a singer, I always try to keep my music videos clean.

Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

I thought there was a way of marrying what I wanted to do with filmmaking with pop videos, which I found out through a couple projects just wasn't possible. That's not saying anything about the artist. If you're making an Usher video, you're making an Usher video, not a film with an Usher song in it.

I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.'

And my idols in music videos are people like Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze and Johnathan Glazer and David Fincher and that's always kind of been my reference point in music video and commercial directors.