Quotes About Visuals

It's much easier to make a movie with kind of stylistic pyrotechnics because you can hide behind that if there's a gap in the story.

It was kind of fun to make 'Cloudy,' which has such a stylized look, and then do 'LEGO,' which, while it's stylized, is also photo-real.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

I love working with rotoscopic animation because under the incredible handpainted artwork are real actors and real human performances.

I would say my favorite is probably the 'Colder' video. Just because that sort of brings the album artwork to life. It's not my favorite song on the album, but visually, I think it just came out exactly how I had it in my head.

That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.

There is an animated version of 'Lazer Team,' with all the action sequences, that exists. It's a pre-visual fidelity, and the voice acting is terrible because it's one of our animators doing it. But we could sit there and watch what the scene is supposed to look like while we're doing individual shots.

We work in vertical and horizontal planes. We avoid depth characteristics as much as possible. This reduces the number of pictures in a five minute segment from 12,000 to 1,200. And the public likes the technique better.

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 think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.

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've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.

What makes 4K so interesting is it captures lifelike cinema-quality video.

Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.

For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally dealing with production values.

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.

I guess the way I shoot things is slightly influenced by the way videogames are cut and shot.

I want to put my harshness into rap videos and create a new style.

With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.

I come from music videos and commercials, where style is a big part of the whole world. I've always tried to add that to whatever I'm doing.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.