Pretty Cool People Interviews

Tommy Pallotta

Director

You hope not to piss off a major film icons

Tom14

street artist

They have laws that forbid all kinds of ads in the streets but you see thousands of billboards and signs and buses full of ads. The big question is: who controls the public space?

Sixeart

Artist

If I don't like a painting, I won't sell it, no matter what they pay.

Kustaa Saksi

Illustrator

In a way it's cliché to be inspired by nature, but at the same time you can't really get rid of that, because nature is so near everywhere in Finland.

Ivan Sijak

director

I never really intended to be an influential artist. I only tried to express myself within the limits that are satisfactory for me.

Erwin Wurm

artist

I'm an artist. Artists are simple creatures. Give us something to draw with and some food, and we're content ... That's all we need really.

Miranda July

artist

"there are so many opportunities to put a picture of your face online... and that's somehow not doing the job of feeling a connection."

Mike Mills

director, designer

It's funny, I was basically 30 years old and I was doing skateboards and bands again. When I was 15 I was doing skateboards and bands. I feel like I really haven't changed that much. It's the same basic world that I've been in.

Studio DDT

special effects

We always do more than they pay us for. We do it because we really like it and we want to make the director as happy as possible.

Alex Courtes

director

Most of the time I don't know what they are saying. From Vertigo I didn't understand anything. They had to explain to us what it really meant...

Genevieve Gauckler

Illustrator

You won’t find my work in the art galleries. To be frank, people don’t really take it seriously.

TKV

Street artist

Even if you live in Serbia you have endless possibilities to make and do things.

Aleksandar Macasev

visual artist, designer

My way of communication is not pretty. I’m not about flowers, meadows or beauty. I need to disturb somebody a little bit.

Martha Cooper

photographer

I consider myself more of an ethnographer. My photography is very literary documenting something. I use it to collect and catalogue images.

Olivier Marquezy

motion graphic designer

Maybe that's what you call French style. When you say things in a smart way, in an elegant way.

Valerie Pirson

Animator

Michel Gondry gave me carte blanche. He just outlined the story. I was still in school then.

Anna Biller

Filmmaker

"In the rooms in the 60s they decorated almost for camera, for camera angles and for camera depth, because it's all texture. A very cinematic time for decoration."

Taika Waititi

Filmmaker

I'm a big fan of the '70s and the '80s. there was a certain innocence back then. Especially in the '80s people made a lot of mistakes, even fashion wise. If you look back, you think, wow, we really didn't know anything. And I kind of like that.