We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.
My life is nothing like my videos. I'm definitely not walking around with lots of hot women, as I am in my videos.
In my films that I've directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I've rarely used handheld. It's just not something I'm drawn to, but I've seen it done very well.
My belief is that you should take stills of what doesn't seem to move, and take movies or videos of [what] does.
I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.
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.
It's unfortunate that women feel they have to resort to something sensational... All the videos I see now are sexy and raunchy. What's the point? I don't get it?
I love directing my music videos and writing video treatments, and I think it's all just because I love the visual aspect of it as well.
Today's evangelism is just as likely to take place via chat rooms and viral videos as it is in a personal conversation or a sermon.
I have the best of both worlds. I have all the accolades that come with something like that video, but I don't have people stopping me on the street and being like, "Oh, my God, dance for me." I have probably only been recognized three or four times flat out - someone saying, "Are you the Evolution of Dance guy?"
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.
It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?
I don't play video games.
The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And I stepped on there with a directing partner, so I could blame him when everything went tits up. But since then my nerves have incrementally decreased so I'm not plagued by the same sense of nerves as I used to be.
My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo Mario Bros.
Emil's [Nava], the video director. Originally, I was meant to do all the stuff that the puppet was doing. I just wasn't that comfortable with doing it, so he had a puppet made.
You used to have to beg and be the busboy to do standup. I got on Community because people saw my videos on YouTube, which were free.
I do think that music videos have a huge impact on the way you listen to music.
There are so many bad songs that have incredible videos. It's pretty amazing, actually. The power of putting images to music is hypnotizing. It's a real power. That's a realm that I've failed at completely.
There's no real organised body, ... so through the internet people have spread their videos, spread photos, and spread word of a new urban movement.
With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me!
People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that.
People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
There's a video on YouTube where the terrorists clearly make trials [of chemical weapons] on a rabbit and kill the rabbit and said "this is how we're going to kill the Syrian people."
The cool kids have co-opted all the neat stuff ? computers, gadgets, video games. Theres no such thing as a computer geek anymore.
