People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.
I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.
We're visual creatures. Probably, when we were hunter gatherers... that was the kind of thing that mattered. And remembering, say, phone numbers was, like, not that important when you're hunting down a mastodon or whatever.
The visual is important. "Let's get to work" says let's get it done, and that's what they want.
It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.
What the work of art looks like isn't too important.
I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.
Some people I see - people who do more or less have prerecorded tracks - their persona is such that the visual side of just them is way more important and multi-dimensional. Me, I'm boring to look at.
For me the visual is just as important as the music.
In a silent film, the visuals are of utmost importance.
Truly great images make all the other millions of images you look at unimportant. You gotta look at an image and understand it in a nanosecond.
Only the picture matters. It's what goes on the screen that counts.
