Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.
Whether it be tour posters, album packaging, videos, stage design, etc., the visual aspect of music is very important to us.
I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.
I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.
How do you photograph a gadget in a new, and not boring, way? You have to get away from people sitting in front of a computer. You have to get a look at the digital signature.
I really believe you'll get a music video one of these days that I shot with an iPad because it's that consistent and that good. It's HD.
The nice thing about movies is that you can sort of steer your audience toward seeing that there's discomfort, but there's also this sense of, 'Well, we'll tolerate this weirdness because maybe it'll be interesting.'
'Purampokku' was one of those rare films made just like it was narrated.
