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Where I stand, or where the people I work with stand, is the technology is inevitable, so it's about how do we steer it.
I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in cinema.
If there's a new HBO series, you know there's going to be a certain level of storytelling mastery - that you can trust it.
Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.
I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
No one has actually gone further than The Sex Pistols, I don't think, in that cultural music arena. They still challenge people.
For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.
It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.
For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than where we are.
Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.
My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.
What we want Vrse to be is a collection of the best in class - the greatest cinematic VR that you can see, and a place that you can trust.
As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.
Music scores your life. You interact with it. You listen to it in the car. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.
You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.
One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.
When you stand in a traditional audience, you have a wall of amplified sound coming at you from one direction. Everyone's familiar with that.
Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube and Dre and Mary J. Blige and TLC.
It's such a thrilling part about being in a relationship at a young age, and all your feelings are apocalyptic, all your emotions are so huge.
I didn't realize how slow my four-year-old MacBook was until the web team wanted to start using it as the benchmark for a slow computer experience.
Web projects aren't done until I'm happy, or someone changes the password to the server. A formal release does not stop me from working on it more.
We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.
I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.
I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world.
I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn't always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves.
A bad version of a virtual reality video makes you vomit in your headset in under 10 seconds. It's much easier to make bad VR than it is to make good VR.
Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.
I do have a priority in my house, and that is I want my kids to be healthy, and if I give them the right food, I am headed consistently toward that goal.
If you look at all the technology we're interconnected with every day, all this complex technology that connects humanity, it actually doesn't connect us.
I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.
I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.
Virtual reality is the 'ultimate empathy machine.' These experiences are more than documentaries. They're opportunities to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.
If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.
I don't have a typical filmmaker background. I didn't grow up with a super eight camera or a video camera. I didn't start cutting movies when I was four or five.
There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.
I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.
As entertainment and storytelling move in the direction of more immersive environments, binaural sound will begin to play a larger and larger role in those experiences.
My real motivation came from my quest for music videos to have the equally soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does. Honestly, I'm not sure they ever can.
I’ve never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn’t feel right or isn’t going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.
Audiences can tell when you're being fake and they will eat you alive. But if you're doing something authentic they will connect to it and that can lead to commercial success.
My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.
I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.
I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It's just about, 'What's a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?'