Chris Cornell speaks about the making of `You Know My Name` music video

Casino Royale theme song vocalist Chris Cornell spoke to AOL Music about the making of his video for the new James Bond song ("You Know My Name") for the 21st 007 adventure.

Cornell admited making the video was tricky, from a writing standpoint. "A lot of people that wrote treatments for it, it was kind of like, 'Make the singer a secret agent as well,' which didn't appeal to me. That's the obvious idea," he said. "It's so hard to make a video with film footage in it without it being kind of stupid."

What, then, was he looking for? "I just wanted somebody that could tell a simple story in a way that looks cinematic." He said Michael Hausman was the guy to do that. "I saw a couple of his videos and he had exactly that cinematic quality. So I just called him up."

Hausman, the singer said, decided to film Cornell doing what he normally does in his unusual job as a rock star — like "looking out at a window at a different city every night. Things that are not bad about what I do — actually good about what I do, but what makes it just different than the average job. It's simple as that."

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