Quotes About Expression

My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than a lot of bass players at this point in my life. So I've always been an old-film nut and have very much enjoyed doing videos over the years.

In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.

I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos.

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.

With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral.

If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do.

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.

There's not a lot of music videos that are totally, totally disturbing.

I think all my videos suck.

I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business.

I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.

Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

I always thought I'd look corny in the type of rap video in the club with girls and all that type of stuff. I just didn't think I could really pull that off. We always think it's more fun and better just to go outside the box and to use our videos to show cool concepts.

I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.

I was very inspired by the videos of the crowds at the Palin rallies.

When I think back on high school, I always tried to make silly videos with my friends.

Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they're different lengths, and in a movie, you have more time to explore an idea. But I feel like they're all the same, really.

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 don't feel as though I've graduated from commercials or music videos. In my mind, they aren't compartmentalised.

Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.

I'm pretty strict with videos, at least the imagery stuff.

The Beastie Boys are guys I loved before I met them, and when I got to know them, we started a magazine together, and we started making videos together, and a lot of it came out of us just cracking ourselves up, like going to the fake mustache store and buying fake mustaches.