Check out our new interview:

http://theidealists.com/meta/view/meet-an-idealist-daniels

This is the first time someone released our answers to their questions word for word!  Stripper jokes, dumb puns, everything…  Hooray for no censorship.  Oops.

With that in mind we thought we’d share exceprts of a few interviews past that were censored (in retrospect, rightfully so):

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 How did you guys meet and become filmmaking partners?

1. We actually met in a computer animation class and instantly left bad impressions on each other. 

 2. Daniel Kwan was a real over eager dork with a beaded necklace (see diagram A). But I noticed he worked 24/7 and was a decent animator. Ripe for exploitation.

1. And Daniel Scheinert was in an improv troupe where everyone made fun of him for being gay and southern (see diagram B and C and D).

1. So what organically came out of us working together was a mix between the frantic process of improv and the careful forethought of animation.

2. To my father: I’m not actually gay.

What was the inspiration for your video for “Pigeons”?

2. 90% of our ideas come out of our obsession with puke , fart, and butt jokes. 

1. And we decided fire works coming out of a butt wouldn’t play well. 

2. Seen it. 

 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6yvtC8nWS8 )

What was the most outlandish or challenging thing to happen while working on a video?

2. We went to 10 stores trying to find the right dress for ‘Pigeons.’ Women!? Am I right.

1. I mean I guess this is regular music video fare, but coming up with the “perfect” dress was a process we just weren’t used to.

2. To my Mother: I respect women and their dresses very much.

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EXCERPTS FROM AN UNRELEASED FUTURE THEMED INTERVIEW:
Through the magic of technology we present an interview with DANIELS from the year 2030: 

Where did you pick up your directing skills? Were you precociously talented as kids? Are there any Super 8 mini-masterpieces hiding in an attic somewhere?

Daniel 1: What is Super 8?

Daniel 2: It’s that box office smashing hit movie from 2011 created by JJ Abrams.

Daniel 1: Oh yeah.  That wasn’t us, but cool movie. 
 

What are your favourite sci-fi films and have they impacted on your work at all?

Daniel 2: Growing up, the only VHS we could watch at my grandmother’s house was Terminator 2: Judgement Day and the Back to the Future Trilogy. Sci-fi is infused in my childhood.

Daniel 1: I wish I could love those movies, but time travel logic makes no sense and the inner-logic and repercussion always bug me.

Daniel 2: But we’re kind of time travelling right now…

Daniel 1:… Oh my god… wait…

David 3: Hi Guys

Daniel 1 and 2: AHHH! Who are you! 

You edit and do vfx?

Daniel 2: These days we do the effects on set and use the effect button.

Daniel 1: Or the CG filter.

Daniel 2: Doing our own effects defines our treatments.  We write dangerously ambitious treatments that nobody believes are affordable.  

Daniel 1: It’s an uphill battle convincing folks that you can do it.  But we’ve got cheap tricks, and it looks okay in the end. 

You were in the video for underwear how do you balance it all.  Are there catfights.

Daniel 1: We try to divide up tasks and trust each other.  We don’t want bureaucratic productions where everything requires double ‘approval.’  So acting occasionally isn’t a problem.  

Daniel 2: We used to say, we’d love to play all the roles.
 

Daniel 1: And these days we finally can.  Thanks to cloning.
 

Daniel 2: As a side note, we need to know the name of whoever told you about our involvement with underground cat fighting. 
 

What do you think music videos of tomorrow will look like?
 

Daniel 1: Unfortunately, in 2030 music videos have devolved into cute kitten videos.
 

Daniel 2: Viral videos in their purest form.  We have a collection of kittens that we use for our videos and they are the CUTEST!
 

Daniel 1: And sometimes they fight to the death in our cat fights.  Next question. 

 
If you could work with any band/musician who would it be and why?
 

Daniel 2: Future U2 is my favorite.  They’re a U2 cover band that blew up in 2025.  They’re way bigger than U2 ever was.  Nobody in the future even knows what a Bono is. 
 

What did you think the future would look like?
 

Daniel 2: I’ll tell you, in the future we have heely feet.  You know like those shoes with wheels.
 

Daniel 1: But without the shoes. 
 

In the future we will be…
 

Daniel 2: Humble.
 

Daniel 1: Dust.

David 3: David 3.

Daniel 1&2: What?
 

Tell us anything else

Daniel 1: Hi Mom.