Benefits Quote by Michael Apted

When we are making our independent music, we know our directors and what's happening around as we are paying for it. When it's a…

— Raftaar

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

— Lana Del Rey

I'm not a filmmaker. I'm not a music producer by choice.

— Afeni Shakur

Music videos were an outlet. They were the jobs most easily available to me, but creatively, they're also so free form; there are no…

— Hiro Murai

I have a music-video background, and I feel like the responsibility of a music-video director is to do something that hasn't been done before…

— Ruben Fleischer

It's tough as an artist to have such a specific vision for your video in mind when you write a song. Reaching out to…

— Hayley Kiyoko

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming…

— Sean Parker

Our responsibility is not just to make films for music but to make music for films.

— Bhushan Kumar

Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the…

— Talib Kweli

Well, ever since I started helping out my husband with the management of the company, I have been involved with the making of music…

— Divya Khosla Kumar

When making a music video, it becomes quite difficult to find a director who can puts all your words into pictures and convey the…

— Declan McKenna

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on…

— Cher Lloyd