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Jonas Akerlund

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[Wikipedia] Hans Uno Jonas Åkerlund is a Swedish filmmaker and musician who is best known for his work in music videos. Åkerlund was a member of the Swedish black metal band Bathory. According to Jillian Drachman of Metal Injection, "many people do not know that Jonas Åkerlund is a musician."

Quotes by Jonas Akerlund

I do most of my post production in Stockholm, usually at night, so when I get out of the office at 3…

City

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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.

Action

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Now, with YouTube, the audience decides. You can make something that is 20 minutes long or one minute long.

Audience

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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…

Hard

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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…

City

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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…

Always

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The guys in U2, whom I work with a lot, have a very open political agenda.

Agenda

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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,…

Chance

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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…

Book

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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.

Director

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I'm pretty spoiled. I work a lot. I go from project to project.

Go

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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…

Advertising

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Even in Los Angeles, I stop the car and walk. People look at me and think I am lost or something, they…

Car

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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…

Everything

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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…

Chaos

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I don't have much patience as I really like to work a lot and it is really hard to work a lot…

Hard

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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…

Again

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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…

Art

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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…

Back

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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.

Anything

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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…

Impression

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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…

Hollywood

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I think anyone with a voice should use it. I think a lot of people could, and should, do a lot more.

Could

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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…

Art

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