Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.
I always liked stories that carry on and have a different format from the normal music video.
I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would be off the chain. It would be amazing.
You used to have to beg and be the busboy to do standup. I got on Community because people saw my videos on YouTube, which were free.
And part of my vision is to do dynamic videos for kids.
First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.
So it was a whole experience revolving around "The Evolution of Dance," but wasn't just a company that put an ad on the video.
When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.
I do not click on random youtube videos.
If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly. " from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death
It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.
The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.
Video games lend themselves completely to 3-D.
"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.
Directing music videos is all about capturing images.
Someone asked me if I was a method actor - I loved that! I needed to know what it felt like to lose everything just to do the Bad Day video! I could really feel the angst!
I've seen lawyers who don't represent me and spokespeople who do not know me speaking for me. These characters always seem to surface with dreadful allegations just as another project, an album, a video is being released.
I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
The cool kids have co-opted all the neat stuff ? computers, gadgets, video games. Theres no such thing as a computer geek anymore.