Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.
Mark MothersbaughThe stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.
Mark MothersbaughWhen I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn't know quite how to classify. Those were my choices. That's where you would find Captain Beefheart or an early electronic album.
Mark MothersbaughMy major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.
Mark MothersbaughThis is the fourth movie that I've done with this set of director-writers and I've learned to trust them at this point, because actually I started on Lego before they did.
Mark MothersbaughMy favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.
Mark Mothersbaugh