“He [Mark Webb] is very savvy, technically, he's shot so many videos, he knows how to get what he wants. The surprise, of course, is that he's also an extremely humanistic story-teller. He's obsessed with story and character, and not just making it look right, which is a double-thred that's rare in directors.” KnowsWantLooksCharacterStoriesCoursesKnow HowDirectorsShotsMarkSurpriseVideoObsessedSavvyHumanistic Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer. I'm the rapper. I'm the visionary. I'm the music producer. I'm the executive producer. I'm just going to end it off to be poetic: I'm the future of music.” ThinkingEndsWholeDirectorsAspectHandleVideoProducersDesignerExecutivesPoeticRapperVisionariesMusic Producer Author:Kanye West
“I have always been a director first and the whole acting thing just happened because none of my friends wanted to be in my videos, so I had to do it myself and wear a bunch of wigs.” FirstsWholeWantedActingHappenedDirectorsMy FriendsVideoBunchWigs Author:Shane Dawson
“Before the days of video village a director should stand right next to the camera, look with his naked eye and if he sees something that is real to him, he'd look up at the [camera] operator and if he gives the look to indicate he'd seen it to, then you print and you'd move on.” IfsGivingShouldLooksRealEyeMovingNextDirectorsCamerasVideoNakedLook UpPrintVillageOperatorsNaked Eyes Author:Matt Damon
“I will say that I'm going to take full credit for this. I knew Josh [Hutcherson] was going to be a star. One of the things you do, as a music video director, is spot talent. Th at's one of my things. I don't just do random people.” PeopleStarsTalentDirectorsCreditVideoSpotsJosh Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too.” YearsKindChildrenTogetherArtistWifeDadDirectorsMy WifeVideoMakeupPreschoolMakeup ArtistOldest Child Author:Anthony Edwards