A Quote by Nia Long

Directing music videos is all about capturing images.

Nia Long

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About Capturing Directing Images Music Music Video Music Videos Videos

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Nia Long
American - Actress
Born: October 30, 1970

Directing music videos, especially ones that are concept/narrative driven is challenging in itself, but Directing a music video within a digital video environment is even more difficult.

Jon Jon Augustavo

My two favorite parts of what I do are definitely writing the music and then writing and directing the videos to support each song. As well as doing my own makeup and styling for the videos.

Melanie Martinez

I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.

Barkhad Abdi

Some people draw a line between music videos and short films, looking down on music videos as a format, but there's so much potential in music videos.

Hiro Murai

Videos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process. I think that we live in a very visual era, and if you make a mistake with a video, those images will accompany the song forever.

Shakira

I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.

Johan Renck

I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

Joan Chen

First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.

Abraham Polonsky

I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.

Matthew Gray Gubler

When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I'm co-producing on my album; I'm hands-on with everything. I'm more than just a pretty boy: I'm an artist. I'm not saying I'm a hip-hop music artist, I'm an artiste.

ASAP Rocky

If you get rid of music, images, videos, words and literature from the smartphone, you just have a simple phone that would be worth $50.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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.

Tamra Davis

I love directing my music videos and writing video treatments, and I think it's all just because I love the visual aspect of it as well.

Melanie Martinez

I started directing videos at the same time that Michel Gondry was starting to direct videos, and I watched what he'd do. They all seemed to be pushing some new visual effects idea, but never just for spectacle. They all captured a feeling.