Nia Long Quotes

Directing music videos is all about capturing images.

Nia Long

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• My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Look
  • Images
  • Material

• Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • September
  • Images
  • Wave

• I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Horror

• I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Play
  • Video
  • Prefer

• Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Book
  • Terrible
  • Video

• I like creating images.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Like
  • Creating
  • Images

• I remember watching myself on video and being so disappointed with myself because I was constantly moving around the place and laughing. I thought, 'I must be so much louder than I think I am. From inside it feels fine.'

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Moving
  • Laughing
  • Disappointed

• I'm the queen of the independent video!

  

  Kari Wuhrer
  • Independent
  • Queen
  • Video

• I'd want to direct a video for Yoko Ono. As long as I got to work with Yoko Ono someday, I'd be really happy. I just think she's such a great artist - it would just be so nice.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Work
  • Long
  • Artist

• The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Past
  • Way
  • Images

• I think the best music videos are the ones that have nothing to do with the song. Those are all my favorites.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Song

• Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • Truth
  • History
  • Hand

• I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Important
  • Black
  • Hand

• I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Images
  • Frame
  • Flurry

• If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Images
  • Slides
  • Daydream

• As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Working
  • Mood
  • Images

• My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.

  

  William Shatner
  • Information
  • Interviews
  • Video

• I create most of my own images. I steal about 2%. I use Photoshop but didn't learn it very deep. I am ultra lazy about learning software.

  

  Francesca da Rimini
  • Learning
  • Create
  • Images

• Video store arguments really bother me. Let's say it's a slow night on campus so you decide to stay in and rent a movie. You're in the video store and finally pick one out and your friend says, 'Oh, don't get that, it was on TV last week.' I hate when people say that. Who cares? Is it on TV right now? No? Good, then let's rent it.

  

  Aaron Karo
  • Video
  • Bother
  • Store

• Images and music are very connected.

  

  Jean-Philip Grobler
  • Music
  • Images
  • Connected

• Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Learn
  • Writer
  • Source

• Directing music videos is all about capturing images.

  

  Nia Long
  • Images
  • Video