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The Birdman

"The video’s supposed to show both sides; the serial killer, the kind of gentle side and the deeper side to him as well as the lunatic side, but hopefully people will get to see that he’s not just a lunatic, that there’s always something else, some kind of underlying theme to everyone’s personality."
-Raine Maida in a MusiquePlus interview

"It’s about this man who’s got two sides to him - this tranquil side who loves birds and just comes out to feed them and he’s more serene, and then there’s the other side which becomes obsessed with being a bird and the physical-ness of being a bird. He makes these wings for himself and a beak and he just builds a nest and he just goes a little bit mad, like, he’s wearing nothing except these little underwear and stuff and then he actually gets that the reason why he wants to be a bird is not to actually fly, but to come to this conclusion of this spiritual freedom and more of the mind being free and able to travel wherever it wants to instead of actually physically flying."
-Floria Sigismondi, director, in a MusiquePlus interview

Superman's Dead

"They (the USA) liked our video but they wanted to put more band footage in and take out some of the concept and for us, we just really couldn’t see taking out any of the concept because we spent so much time working on it that it flowed the way it should and to sacrifice any of that footage would destroy the video..."
-Raine
"...so we just decided that starting over would make better sense"
-Mike