Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junkie.' I love novels, I love comics, movies, TV. If it's a good story, I'm hooked.
There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people will keep on telling stories.
I do love TV as a medium.
We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.
When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
In selfie pictures, there is no human touch; it's all about the pose. But selfie videos have sound, actions, and emotions.
I've always had an interest in story-telling and history and just film and art in general, but particularly when it comes to storytelling, I think the reason why we became involved in film is because we wanted to get some great stories out there.
I think looks do matter on television.
We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.
Normally sports day is once a year for kids, where you have fun, and everybody is jostling. For us, making movies is like having sports day everyday: competing with each other, doing your best. It's like that except we don't get awards every day in our sports day.
And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world.
Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
I guess the dream would be to do movies, and keep people updated with my videos.
I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well, I want you to know that this is the first book I've ever written, and I hope it's the first book you've ever read. Don't make a habit of it.
I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.
The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.
Directing music videos is all about capturing images.
Things have to hit for the moment. That's one of the reasons I'm into video; the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it.
In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
I'm a visual learner, so film is a huge inspiration to me.
I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
