Taylor Swift: What She Really Wants to Do Is Direct a Feature Film

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The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s really beautiful that we’re in a place where the idea of a female filmmaker doesn’t make you roll your eyes or think as skeptically as it once was,” Swift said.Swift’s potential as a filmmaker comes in large part from her music video background.

Over the years, her videos have become more and more layered, revealing Easter eggs on retrospective watch that reference a time in her life, a past music project, lyric or symbol, and even most times — a future project in the works.“I didn’t go to film school.

I’ve been on the set of around 60 music videos and I’ve learned a lot from that process,” she said. “But when I did it on my own, I really began to learn everything, because you have to.” The first music video Swift directed accompanied a song off her 2019 “Lover” album called “The Man.” In the video, Swift herself undergoes prosthetic makeup and transformation into a male version of herself named Tyler.

She has also directed the music videos for singles off her two most recent albums “folklore” — “Cardigan” and “evermore” — “Willow.”“It was always a part of the process, establishing visuals,” she added. ““The more responsibility I took on, the happier I was.”According to Variety, Swift also explained the decade-long process of visualizing her “All Too Well” short film.“For me, the song was so tough because it was about something that at that point was very current for me,” she said. “I would have a really hard time performing it at the time.