Melissa Auf der Maur Quotes

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.

Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

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

I'm a very visual person, which is probably why I make videos rather than write scripts.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

Film is very condensed.

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

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

A music video is so different to doing a movie.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

I think I would struggle with any job if it was purely about effects. Even as a viewer, those aren't the kind of things that interest me.

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

Making a film is a challenge.

I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting and every aspect.

Yeah, I co-directed '23.' Yeah, the whole concept of the video... Even with that video, I feel like it's not a video that you can get sick of. You can always go back and watch that and it's fresh.

Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

I'm not the guy who does slo-mo, or I'm not the guy who does splashing rain or doves flying or anything; that's not me. Every film, I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.