24 Quotes by Jonas Akerlund

I'd never really shot action scenes before, but I realized early on that is very much like shooting choreography and dance.

As a music video director, I have about 4 billion hits on my music videos on YouTube, and I'm really proud of that.

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.

I don't have much patience as I really like to work a lot and it is really hard to work a lot in movies because you have to have patience - every movie is a huge test of patience.

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

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.

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.

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.

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