The press onslaught for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is now in full swing (get it?), which means the film's director Marc Webb has begun the interview circuit, covering both his big budget superhero series and his music video background.
His in-depth piece with The Daily Beast is a great example, covering his entry into music videos and how they served as a sort of film school for him...
Marc Webb: When I was about 25, I signed with a production company, DNA. It was very small but run by this guy, David Naylor, who’s sort of this godfather of music videos. It was Francis Larwence, who’s now directing The Hunger Games, myself, and this woman named Liz Friedlander. I was the baby of the group and learned a lot. At DNA, no one was a music critic. You just wanted to work. So I directed over 100 music videos because I just wanted to create...
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