b'DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS U.S.maybe I was going out of fashion avideos and they kind of leave youcertainly Green Day where they let me little bit, but I remember the kids going,alone. Did you experience that fordo my thing for a long period of time. Wow, the people are really ugly in thata while?It wasnt like my career ended then, video. I was trying to make art and theYeah,I got left alone. But also Ibut there was a different vibe in the air. kids didnt like it.was lucky I had some hits. Like, if youAnd also I think that pre Internet, you I can make a lot more money doinghave a hot music producer maybeknow, you knew where your stuff wasTrust your gut, commercials. There was no pretense,these artists would let them do theirgoing to play. When you wanted to see and that was commerce, it wasntthing. They let me do my thing. And ifa music video, you went to MTV, theretrust your heart. making art. A video to me is makingthey didnt let me do you know, unlesswas only one channel in town. So Im art, and if the art wasnt going to getit was Bowie or even Nirvana becausesure I sound like an old sitcom starDo what you love. appreciated, then I think that I kind ofthat was before I was anybody, thatthats bemoaning the days when there stopped caring as much, and stoppedidea wasnt necessarily mine, to do awere only three channels and you hadWhen I hear a great trying to get jobs as much as I did. Ifhigh school rally. But when I got someto watch, you know, where the finale you look at my body of work, that wasnotoriety, I certainly wasnt a jerk aboutof Dallas, I think, had more eyes on itsong or someone right near the end. Yeah, I think Sherylit, but I would say heres my idea, takethan any other show. And when people and the Stones is kind of at the end ofit or leave it. And if it was my idea,do shows now, all my friends talk aboutdoes a great my big run.then, you know, they let me do it. Istreaming content, you know, its very It seems like there was a periodcertainly had some nice experienceshard to know who watches what. Andperformance or, of time when you could do musicwith Maroon Five and the Strokes andto get that sort of attention, get back in the 90s when there was only one place to see a video. But yes, theyou know, theres freedom that I had meant more than the money or anything else and gettingsomething really the chance to work with people I really liked or whose music I really liked wasinteresting aboutusing the format to get an idea across or emotion. exciting. Always exciting, exciting to hear that Metallica wants you to do a video, Bowie wants you to And he goes,do a video. It was cool shit. Do you take any lessons Ah, Doloresfrom your music video days that you still apply today? I do a lot of advertising, and ORiordan. I thinkthats the complete antithesisimagery and vital music, man, its very cool. Very, very cool. But for every good of what music videos weremusic video, theres a thousand bad ones. But yeah, I still do.I still certainly shes really cute. these are absolutely notstill believe in it. And maybe the Internet is actually freeing this up a little bit my ideas. I have a storyboardbecause thats how people see stuff now and now they can download it, now Then he picks upthat I show to an agency. Andthey can watch it again and again. Now they can. Its much more accessible its not a fun process, but itsand also technologys changed a lot. Like, you know, I think you could do a an understandable process the gun andbecause they are paying a lotgood video for a lot less money now because you can shoot it on a Canon 5D or a red camera, whatever it is, or you can edit it in your bedroom, or you could of money. They need to knowfind someone cheap to do special effects. Id say the lessons I learned from pointed at me andwhat theyre getting. Now, Imusic videos stay with me. Trust your gut, trust your heart. Do what you love. see great videos today. I gotWhen I hear a great song or someone does a great performance or, you know, says, Now get thesome award in Poland at a filmtheres something really interesting aboutusing the format to get an idea festival and saw a bunch ofacross or emotion. Thats not a movie, but thats longer than a commercial. You European music videos in 2013.dont necessarily need three act structure or a screenwriter to write a music fuck out of here. Im constantly amazed by whatvideo, but you can still affect people with filmmaking in a very interesting way. people are doing, that there isIm not embarrassed to have become a music video director and certainly not still great work being done, andembarrassed by the body work I made. And it was the greatest film school you theres a freedom in this mediumcould go to. You know, thats what MTV and the business was for me. It was that when theres a marriage offilm school. I think I graduated. (laughs)All photos in this article were provided by Samuel Bayer except screen captures of No Rain and Smells Like Teen Spirit42MVTMISSUE #1ISSUE #1MVTM43'