“Something respected, was the most important thing to do with your life.”

As a kid, I wasn’t given the sense that celebrity, or fame or any of that,

Was something to be impressed by, or to seek out. It was always impressed upon me that making something well crafted

I felt like I wanted to make more than just music.

I’m pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know – everything.

And I try to preserve whatever’s of value and achievable in their idea.

I’ve never made a video where I didn’t talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment.

Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators.

I always wanted to be a musician.

And I’ve tried to do that where I can in my field.

If it’s something I can’t achieve, I tell them straight.

Otherwise they’re not going to feel great when they’re up there miming it.

My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist.

I did voice training and piano lessons, and while I was a decent musician.

It didn’t seem like enough for me.

I try to bring musicians into the logistics of filmmaking.

Musicians ultimately are who they are, they aren’t actors, so as a clipmaker you have a responsibility to protect them.

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.

Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.

Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical.

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

There are pockets of extremism in Israel,

After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.