This 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 MothersbaughTechnology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.
Mark MothersbaughIf you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.
Mark MothersbaughI think somewhere around high school, your brain starts to gel, to harden. Before that, thereโs this time where anything is possible and the more things that you artistically and educationally have in your repertoire, the more you become a child of larger possibilities.
Mark MothersbaughBefore MTV, if you put out an album that sold 50,000 copies, your band could afford not to have day jobs for a while. That meant you could stick around, put out another album or two. Maybe it would be the second or third album where you'd make the statement you'd been trying to make all along.
Mark MothersbaughLego was our fourth film, because we did two Cloudys, so yeah there's a little bit of shorthand that's involved and then you can anticipate things- because for me it's like, I get a script for a movie and I go, "Wow that's a pretty good script", then you sign on and a couple months later they show you the first cut and you're like, "Whoa, how did that happen?"
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