Ourselves Podcast
Ourselves Podcast
Ourselves
The Director Behind Ariana Grande And Your Favorite Artist
2 hour Posted Aug 5, 2026 at 1:30 pm.
Cold Open
Becoming A Dad Changed Everything
Shooting Ariana Grande On Film
YUNGBLUD, Ozzy And Sharon On Set
His Dad Built The Karol G Museum
Self Taught, No Film School
Trippie Redd's First 100K Video
Roddy Ricch's The Box, Nobody Asked
You Have To Be Your Own Agent
The Box Dropped, Then Lockdown
Lil Nas X's Industry Baby Shower Scene
SZA's Kill Bill Was An Accident
Doja Cat's Streets And Blacking Out
Why His Treatments Got Simpler
SZA And Lisa Shot In One Day
Spielberg, Fincher And Precision
Inside Ariana Grande's World
We Can't Be Friends And Eternal Sunshine
Creative Directing Ariana's Tour
20,000 People Lose It
Winning Video Of The Year At The VMAs
Advice For Up And Coming Directors
Old Spice, Marshmello And Commercials
Chasing The First Feature
Stop Forcing The Timeline
McConaughey's Oscar Speech Lesson
Dinner With His Grandparents
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Christian Breslauer directed the music videos you have already watched a hundred times. Ariana Grande. SZA's Kill Bill. Lil Nas X's Industry Baby. Doja Cat. Lisa. Roddy Ricch's The Box. If you have loved a music video in the last five years, there is a good chance he made it.
 
He also never went to film school. His parents couldn't afford to send him, so he worked in restaurants and taught himself the craft one video at a time. Then he heard a song called The Box, wrote a treatment nobody asked him for, said "this is the hit," and it changed his life.
 
In this conversation I break down with Christian how he shot SZA's Kill Bill in a single 18 hour day with wirework and stunts, the one scene he pitched over lunch that took Lil Nas X from 50 million views to 500 million, the pitch that made Ariana Grande cry and led to Video of the Year at the VMAs, and what it was like shooting Ariana on real film with Steven Spielberg's two time Oscar winning DP. We also get into the parts nobody posts about. Why you have to be your own agent, why he walks onto every set a little scared, why he'd rather have a hundred shots that look thirty percent cool than one perfect one, and why he thinks you have to be a little psychotic to be a creative.
 
If you're trying to build a career in film or music video without permission or connections, this is the blueprint.
 
 
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