Shooting videos with lots of effects is like shooting a bunch of puzzle pieces.

At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

People have a natural tendency to read emotions out of faces, so when you see a face that is hyperreal but without the life behind the eyes, it's really off-putting and intriguing.

Even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little.

Shooting videos with lots of effects is like shooting a bunch of puzzle pieces.

A lot of the music video stuff I've worked on is mostly me pitching ideas, and then if [the artists] have notes or thoughts, I'll integrate them into the idea.

I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together. Each person is having a very personal and maybe even emotional experience, but it's in the confines of an extremely quiet and sterile room.