b"DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS U.S.when you were in the Beatles? Yeah, to do a big video. I was getting moreway it looks. Not the old iris opening that was really cool. Thats about theand more into my photography at theand closing, but what the video was conversation I had with Mick Jagger intime. I really liked this photographer,about. About art crime and murder, the car. He wanted nothing to do withSebastian Salgado, who did theseand the minotaur and all this weird shit me. Didnt want to talk. It was the mostamazing images of workers in diamondthats in the video, its all him. Maybe I awkward 60 block drive Ive ever had.mines in Africa or South America. Icame up with some ideas covering him The name of the bandBut yeah, it was cool. I can put it on mydont know where I came up with thisin paint or how its props or whatever, bucket list. I think actually, Mick got madidea. Its like, I think I wrote the idea.but whatever that video means. Thats is called Garbage, soat me about the second video I did,Its like its a riot in a diamond mine,David Bowie. and he left an angry message on myand a kid finds a butterfly and theyIs Sheryl Crows Home video still your favorite video of yours? the idea of somethinganswering machine. And I wish Id keptdont kill him, huh? And I dont know ifYeah. Thats a really good one. I it because I think Jagger leaving eventhats the sound of the video other than an angry message on the answeringman, it looks like nothing else on thehave a very famous movie star friend discarded, put backmachine is a pretty cool thing.air, that was that was a pretty bad asswho has two Academy Awards, and And actually in Saint of Me,job. And I like Billy Corrigan, and theywe used to go to his house and watch together feels likeyou have Keith with a knife.were a very hot band then. I think thatthat video years after I did, it was his Yeah, maybe. Maybe deep down,video blew a lot of people away. Wefavorite. He loves that video. Im not garbage. I thought,I wanted him to cut himself with it. Iwere in Simi Valley, we got bulldozersgonna say who it is. I think Sheryl asked him to pull the knife out, its aand dug up a hilltop. And then I got aCrows Home might have been my how could I do abig knife, and start fucking around withbunch of white migrant workers tolast great video, even though I love an apple or something. I didnt want tocome in and be covered in mud with aeverything I did with Green Day, but simple video andseriously injure himself, but, you know,cast of hundreds, if not thousands,it was the end of my era. Like I said, I did have him do quite a few takes. certainly hundreds. It was this beautiful94. The 97. I can tell you when it was make it look exciting? For Garbages Stupid Girl, youthing. I think it looks as fresh today asMay of 1997. Is one of my previousreportedly tried to give the videoit did twenty four years ago or twenty-videos. Hank Corwin was my editor, hea deteriorated look by actuallyfive years ago.edited Natural Born Killers and JFK.damaging the film you shot.How was your experience withAnd she was lovely and. That might beId done a couple of videos forDavid Bowie?my last great one I think. Even thoughthem, and I really liked the record. AndLoved him. If you ask me, of all theher lyrics are very clear and defined,cool experiences. But that was prettyI said, look, you know, why dont youartists I worked with who I love theyou have to listen to them. I wasprofound, because I remember Kurtgive me fifty thousand dollars and letmost, I guess I gotta say Bowie. Hedating the woman that turned out toleaving the edit bay in 91, he askedme do something for Stupid Girl ifwas just lovely. He was not the flavorbe my wife, who was from the South,me for cab fare and we didnt like eachthats the next single. I dont know whatof the month when I did that video. Thetoo. Well, I think I love Sheryls videoother and I was happy to see him go.Stupid Girl is about, but I know thefirst one is the better one, Heartsso much because I was in love withHe finally signed off on the edit. Hename of the band is called Garbage,Filthy Lesson. He went on tour withsomebody that was from the Southcame down from Seattle to take somea 27 year old kid that had everythingIsham, all said that Keith Richardsso the idea of something discarded,Nine Inch Nails, he was the warm upwho told me about pig roasts andshots out, which were actually goodto live for and blew his brains out. Itpulled a knife on every one of them,put back together feels like garbage. Iband and the kids didnt like him. Itwhere she grew up. Theres a real lovedecisions. Then I heard that he badwas fucking sad. And I was sad for hisbasically saying, If you make methought, how could I do a simple videowas the time ofheroin chic andof home. Theres something that youmouthed me in the press, and I sawdaughter and sad for his death. Its lifelook like a fucking idiot. Ill kill you.and make it look exciting? And thegrunge and Alice in Chains, Stonedont find in Los Angeles that Sheryltheir incredible rise to fame. I was aand death. I saw a guy right before heYeah, that sounds familiar. Youbands called Garbage, so I treat theTemple Pilots and God knows - Filter?was singing about not going homelittle sad about it because I felt like Igot famous. And then I talked to hisknow, there was one moment, you film like garbage and then re-transferAnd the fact that audiences werentagain, but also missing home and thewas part of it, and they wanted nothingwidow, you know, on Doll Parts. know. Look, they were the Stones. it. So its something I experimentedaccepting a 50-year-old David Bowiepeople that you leave behind.to do with me. And the next phone callYou have a kid that looks like aIt was cool to work with them. The with. I made a print of the film and thenbreaks my heart. But I think that recordAnd so I staged it in Hemet, I got was, I think maybe two monthsyoung Kurt in that video.interesting thing in that process is thatI took it home and used razor bladesis now getting a lot more attention. AndCalifornia, which is a few hours east of after Kurt killed himself. That was fromYeah, we cast a kid, its supposednot only did I put Angelina Jolie one of and cut it up, stuck it in the bathtub,everything he did was really profound.Los Angeles. And maybe we dressed Courtney. She said that he alwaysto represent the young Kurt Cobain.her first projects, but I did two videos,stuck it in the ocean, and brought itThe fundamental differencea few people, but I staged that whole liked the video and she wanted me toSo, yeah, stuff with her laying in bedthe first one Anybody Seen My Babyinto my colorist who Ive been with forbetween him and the Rolling Stones isthing. I made a pig roast. I did a stock do a video about her relationship withwith him and him walking out the door,had Angelina Jolie the second part years. They stuck it on the reel to reelthat the Stones were happy andcar race and all these events in the Kurt and his death. And so, it was awhich is like walking to the afterlife orof it is, I came up with all these crazyit, clogged it up and fucked it up andgetting very wealthy playing their oldmud. And we just let it rip for three very heavy experience.something.I dont know.shots and I cant believe Mick went forall that stuff. But all that abrasions andhits on tour. Bowie wasnt into that.days and got all those faces on film How did you feel about that? IDo you remember if that wasit. I said, Im gonna put you in a cab andcuts and everything else really becameThe reason why that tour didnt go welland staged a carnival, if you will. It mean, when you get the call, shesCourtneys idea or yours?drive to Harlem, because weve scouteda stylistic look, this weird handmadeis because he played everything fromwas something in California that felt saying the exact opposite of whatIts hard to remember. Courtneythe club. And when you walk into this process that I did again.the new record when they wantedthevery much like it could have been you had heard him say about it, butwas very tortured at the time, andblack club and you just do what youreWhat do you recall fromold stuff. So he was a painter and wethe South. And yeah, thats a really now Kurts gone. rightfully so. Mostly I just got out of thegoing to do, you know, start dancing to Smashing Pumpkins Bullet withtalked about art. Of all the people Ibeautiful video. I was doing a lot of Me? I just felt very sad for him,way and let her do her thing.the music or interact with people. And Butterfly Wings for example. worked with, he was the kindest,commercials, too, and I felt that this you know. I mean, what am I going toWhen you mentioned the Rollingthe shoot was a fiasco. I did a lot of coolYou know that my heyday wasnicest, most interesting guy. Lovedvideo was kind of it for me, as far as be? I was like the jilted lover, and I feltStones, its kind of interestingstuff in that video but its the nature ofprobably '94 to '97. I can say I didhim, miss him. Sad hes gone.directing music videos. I remember more sad that I was not appreciatedthat you were talking earlier aboutwinging stuff like that. I share the cab my best work then. It seemed likeWas he collaborative?they were talking about it on TRL for what I helped bring to the band, sorisking your life because I spokewith Mick and my driver, just me and everybody wanted me. It was a greatCompletely. That videos all him.and the kids, you know, it looked so yes, it was nice to hear that from her.with other people who workedhim in the back of the cab, for aboutjob to have because I just did what IThose arent my ideas. That one Idifferent. It was around the time of But I think more importantly, I was likewith the Stones. Directors Russell60 blocks. It was like Saturday Nightwanted to do. And if you dont like it, Ifreely admit is not me, those are allNSync, these boy bands and things everybody else. I was in mourning forMulcahy, Julien Temple and WayneLive with Chris Farley, Remember didnt do it. I wrote my ideas and eitherDavid Bowies ideas. Maybe not thewere changing and grunge was you did it or you didn't. But I wanted certainly going out of fashion and 40MVTMISSUE #1ISSUE #1MVTM41"