MTV on Music Video Directors

Very interesting article on music video directors. It appears that many filmmakers have delved in the music video world, or vice versa.
Heres an excerpt about Mark Romanek:

"I think I really torture people," Romanek said. "It's my job to be the prick that keeps pushing them and they get mad at me sometimes, but this is the only time we're going to capture this moment. You rest later; this is forever on film, and when they see the finished video I think they understand." On torturing Reznor on the dirty and depraved set of "Closer": "He was a willing victim."

Romanek has placed Five hundred calls to the LAPD re: the monstrous fireworks in Audioslaves's "Cochise" video; clipping Beck with a car with faulty brakes and injuring his knee during a "Midnight Cowboy" take on the "I'm walkin' here!" scene in "Devil's Haircut"; inducing Trent Reznor to puke on the set of the "Closer" video due to the smell of rotten meat and having Reznor spinning upside down for too long; and almost prompting the Red Hot Chili Peppers' sensitive John Frusciante to flee the set because of his obstreperous, forceful orders.

This is great stuff check it out.