Cohesive Narrative Quotes

Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

So like what I want to do is connect all of my albums and make it tell a bigger kind of story. So the first album is very focused on her family life and her love life.

'Belko Experiment' was the harshest, most extreme movie I ever made. But I still think there's a very cohesive center to it that wasn't always in my early films. And that isn't necessarily a bad thing. But I think it's a commercial thing.

Inspiration is easy. The hard part is getting the inspiration onto 300 pages in an interesting, cohesive, easy-to-read but hard-to-forget story.

All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts.

I need a big picture. I can't just do a collection of songs; that doesn't work for me.

You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort of like having a lot of footage and then editing it into something that will make sense to a viewer, you know. Sometimes it might involve even working on an older song that might complete that picture.

Looking back at all the films it just seems like one long film.

I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible.

I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.

There is something to be said for one vision and following one vision through. I do think it's something TV will catch up to at some point and realize, 'Wow, we're in the Golden Age of Television right now; we've taken television to another level, but now let's take it to an even higher level where it is one vision throughout a whole season.'

Lyrically, the most important thing for me is, how can I tell a cohesive story?

When I do a project, I like the idea that someone is going to experience the book, someone is going to experience the film, someone else is going to experience a framed photo on a wall, but they are all going to get to the same root thing as long as all of those mediums are exploring it from the same place.