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I'm pretty spoiled. I work a lot. I go from project to project.
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Spoiled
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The guys in U2, whom I work with a lot, have a very open political agenda.
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Political Agenda
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Now, with YouTube, the audience decides. You can make something that is 20 minutes long or one minute long.
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One Minute
Youtube
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I have to sell my idea, but they want it to be sold. I don't think I've ever done anything anyone's regretted.
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Regretted
Sold
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As a music video director, I have about 4 billion hits on my music videos on YouTube, and I'm really proud of that.
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Youtube
Billion
Music Video
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I'd never really shot action scenes before, but I realized early on that is very much like shooting choreography and dance.
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Choreography
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Videos are all about making an impression in the moment. If you're lucky, you make a classic that people talk about for years.
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Impression
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Anybody who comes to Stockholm in the summer for the first time and walks around the city at night must think that we're weird.
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Stockholm
Walks
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I have a pile of scripts at home that I love. Some of them are hard to get made. We have to give up stuff. It's hard to get movies made.
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Scripts
Love Home Movies
Pile
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Because I'm traveling so much, Stockholm has become more and more a place for me to recharge and be creative, and then I head back on the road again.
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Stockholm
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I am a very spread out type of director as I just love working in all of these different worlds; I go from commercials to music videos to art projects.
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Different Worlds
Spread
Love Art Music
Commercials
Music Videos
Worlds
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Even when I wrap my work and come home or whatever it is I try to do, I can identify with that feeling of being a little outside, of struggling to get back into normality.
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Normality
Work Home Back
Identify
Struggling
Wrap
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I've always been drawn to movies where I get a chance to look into a world that I kind of know about, but that I never really get to see what's happening behind the doors.
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Doors
The Doors
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I'm a commercial director; I do some very very commercial stuff in the commercial world. My music videos are always analyzed. I need to think about what the audience is going to think.
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Music Always World
Analyzed
Music World Always
Music Videos
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I do most of my post production in Stockholm, usually at night, so when I get out of the office at 3 or 4 in the morning, I usually walk around the city before I go home - that's my routine.
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Routine
Stockholm
Go Home
Post
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With my own work, I've always tried at least to wake people up and shake them out of their complacency. And that's always easier if I'm working with an artist who really has something to say.
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Complacency
Work Always People
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I never get to think about myself when I do films. I started in advertising, so I always have to think about what my client and my audience things. If a film doesn't work, it's a big failure.
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Advertising
Client
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That is one of the sides of Los Angeles that I really like as people may have their big careers but there is one side to Hollywood that is always open to taking risks - as long as it doesn't include risking too much money.
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Careers
Sides
Taking Risks
Include
Risking
Too Much Money
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Especially in Los Angeles you get attached to these projects and then they lie around and you wait and look for that moment in time when everything just works out - every movie that gets made here in LA is a little bit of a miracle.
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Time Moment Look
Attached
La
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In many ways, 'Lords of Chaos' is my first real movie. I went deeper with this film than any of my other movies. I approached my other films like I did my music videos or commercials, like jobs. But 'Lords of Chaos' I wrote myself, and it's a close, personal story.
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Chaos
Deeper
Commercials
Lords
Music Videos
Personal Story
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Polar' is based on the first and a little bit on the second book and all the characters from those novels are in there. The story is based on the graphic novel, but when it came to the execution of the film I felt I couldn't really make a movie without any dialogue.
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Dialogue
Execution
Polar
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