As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".

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.

As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".

My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

Music scores your life. You interact with it. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.

For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than where we are.

Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.