Music Video Aesthetics Quotes

I always liked how people like Grace Jones and Annie Lennox pushed it with the videos. I'm not the most stylish person at all, but there's something about playing dress-up for the day and playing the role of a singer.

I grew up falling in love with music videos and those images: Hype Williams and Mark Romanek, David Fincher and Diane Martel and Paul Hunter, just from the video side. I grew up also watching a lot of independent films and foreign films.

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.

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

Some people draw a line between music videos and short films, looking down on music videos as a format, but there's so much potential in music videos.

I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it was never a step to something else. I approached it seriously.

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 was a kid of the '90s, so I was always inspired by Gwen Stefani, especially the 'Spider Web' video.

Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

I thought there was a way of marrying what I wanted to do with filmmaking with pop videos, which I found out through a couple projects just wasn't possible. That's not saying anything about the artist. If you're making an Usher video, you're making an Usher video, not a film with an Usher song in it.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

And my idols in music videos are people like Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze and Johnathan Glazer and David Fincher and that's always kind of been my reference point in music video and commercial directors.

I'm obsessed with the power of music and image together. There's also something about music videos that are incredibly glamorous - there's a fetishistic aesthetic to them that you don't really see in movies in the same way.

I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.

I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.

I don't think any artist has really relied on music videos the way I do. It's almost like my radio.