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

• To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Experience
  • Images
  • Kills

• 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

• But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Despair
  • Video

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

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Images
  • Daydream
  • Slides

• 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

• Do you ever think about when you outta here? Record deal and video, outta here!? Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!?

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Record
  • Deal
  • Video

• In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph.

  

  Bill Henson
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Photograph

• Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

  

  Brassaï
  • Memory
  • Images
  • Conceived

• I was about 10 years old. I just remember the film Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen and I thought to myself, "That's what I want to do for a living when I'm older." Bruce Lee was so magnetic and charismatic and held the screen so well. It's just a very powerful performance in that film. That's the first memory I have - him in that movie.

  

  Scott Adkins
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Powerful

• Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

  

  Michael N. Castle
  • Chance
  • Cancer
  • Survivor

• Directing music videos is all about capturing images.

  

  Nia Long
  • Images
  • Video