Music Video Artistry Quotes

What I loved most about 'Rhythm Nation' were the uniforms and the perfect group choreography.

Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun.

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.

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.

Die Antwoord is super pop. It's a pop music.

At its best, MTV puts a face to the names, if you know what I mean. I think if you can take the expression of a song much farther, that's great. And it's one of the only outlets there is for artistic filmmaking. But it's a double-edged sword. At it's worst, MTV is just a lot of TV commercials for songs.

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.

I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters.

I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

I have a music-video background, and I feel like the responsibility of a music-video director is to do something that hasn't been done before in a really cool visual way. So much innovation has come in filmmaking through music videos.

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.

A lot of rappers been putting out a lot of sub-par visuals. I feel like the visuals could be better.

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

There are so many songs that have become massive hits merely because the video is great, while the song is pretty rubbish. From that point of view, I think I've always preferred to listen to a song rather than look at it.

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.

Sometimes it gets a little too bubblegum for me, but what I do love about KPop videos is their attention to detail, and their choreography and dancing are always spot-on.

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.

When I film my music videos, I always try to fulfill a part of my dream of being a filmmaker.

I believe that music videos give us an opportunity as actors to play a different character.

I love music videos, and I think maybe it's my favorite format.