So after a gig, they'd rather have the comfort of that family around. Part of what makes This Is Us work is that they're telling their own story and letting us into their lives. I also think these guys have a lot of fun—that's the other thing that sets them apart.
The boys really do enjoy themselves a lot and they have a good time. That's what's different from someone like Katy or Justin.
Louis said to us, "None of us thought any of this would happen. We were having fun when it did and we want to keep having fun. We want to keep having a good time. People know that Zayn is a wonderful singer and that the guy is incredibly talented—but he's a really great artist as well. He's fantastically artistic. We went back home and spent the day with him, and he painted at his house. He's got a graffiti studio in his house and that's just how he unwinds. He has friends over and he listens to music and he paints and he hangs out.
For him, there's nothing more important than being home and being surrounded by people that he loves. There's something really wonderful about that. Don't you think that at least part of the reason people are excited to see the movie is because you're directing it? Yeah, no pressure! We're trying to do some different things. We brought in some music journalists and some historians and other people who can talk about the band's place in the world and in the music business.
We sought out a doctor—a neurologist—who will talk about what happens in a girl's brain when she listens to One Direction, and how that impacts her body and how she reacts to that. There are many moments where the boys have been caught—as some people would say—with their pants down. How did you become involved with this project? Did the boys open up about the downside of fame? Can you tell me something we might not know about one of the guys?
Keywords One direction news one direction takeover morgan spurlock. Can they evolve in a way where they don't just seem like a boy band? Where they continue to do something different and age up. When I first met the band last June and I went to the concert--I went to meet them in Charlotte, North Carolina, and when I went to the show, the audience was very young.
Eleven-toyear-olds was the core audience of the people that were in that show. Then when they started their tour this year in February, the matinees still had very young-skewing audiences. But then the nighttime shows, the 8 o'clock shows suddenly had this mass contingency of to year-old women. Their audience had aged up tremendously, literally in less than a year.
I think if they can continue to not only age up their audience but cater to that audience musically … And this new album that they're working on--you see in the film when they're recording "Best Song Ever" In the hotel. They're recording song after song after song while they were traveling through Europe and doing the same thing now in the states. You hear some of the songs and I'm like, "I'd buy that song. And if Martin Scorsese likes them, any man can feel fine about that.
Marty said in a Martin Scorsese impression , "I like it. I like it. I like your stuff. That was a good impression. I've been working on it. If I were De Niro, can you give me how you would direct me? You gotta think a little harder.
You gotta do a little more. When you get punched in the face, I want you to punch him back. He's going to punch you; you gotta punch him in the head. I can see you've spent some time on that. What would a movie be like if One Direction made a documentary about Morgan Spurlock? Would they each take parts? Like each one of them would direct a section so it becomes this omnibus piece of each [one of] five people directing—like "The Five Obstructions.
Yeah, a couple people might see that. Not very many. Well, I feel like they have to do some musical interpretation of your life. How would that go?
The difference is I grew up the youngest of three ballet-dancing brothers. So I grew up dancing. So my film would actually have some dancing in it, whereas they're very anti-dancing. So they'd have to learn to dance to play you. Or they would just force me to dance as I'm dancing in the film that they're directing. As any good documentary filmmaker does. That's right. To what extent does a movie like this have a certain limitation in terms of what it can show?
You're there to get the story and show people something they haven't seen, but at the same time artists like this, or Katy Perry or whatever, are a brand, and the chances of including something controversial are probably slim. Do you think there's a limit to what you can deliver with this sort of thing? The whole goal for me in making this film was to make something that gave you a window into their world. Everybody has tough moments, or there were days when we were shooting where somebody didn't want the camera to be rolling.
You've gotta give people space. When you're that much in somebody's face all the time, and sometimes if somebody's having a bad day and like, "Listen, I just can't deal with this right now," you have to give them that time. So there's moments where you can push and try to put things like that in the film, but at the end of the day you want to feel like you're creating something that is going to truly resonate who they are.
And I think that's what this film does. I think the film gives you a real sense into them and into their lives and into what they deal with and takes you on that ride. And it's fun. I think this movie is so fun, and for me that's the most important thing. Was there any agreement beforehand about anything you would or would not do?
I'm sure they were a little bit hesitant. The band ultimately, the one thing that they said--and I think the contract they have with Sony is--they said, "We will have the right to remove anything we don't agree with from the film. There was nothing taken out. The bigger thing was the stuff we put back in.
They thought it was important that people know that there was a time that they didn't get along, when way back in the beginning they almost kicked Zayn out of the band.
When that was a conversation that was had. That was something they're like, "No, this is something that should be in there because people should know that we do have these conversations. How much does that impact the way you make the movie? Because obviously this is your movie and they're in control to a certain extent of what gets in, it must be in the back of your mind a little. For me the goal from the beginning was to make the best movie possible. And that's all I wanted to do.
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