Taylor Swift opens up about 'moments of extreme grief' after losing masters

On Saturday afternoon at Tribeca Festival, Taylor Swift sat down for an in-depth discussion with filmmaker Mike Mills

It was about her burgeoning career behind the camera, including writing and directing a 15-minute short film last fall for her ballad “All Too Well.”

Operatic in its emotions and scope, the short stars Sadie Sink as a young writer who gets swept up in a seemingly fairy-tale romance with a charismatic but controlling older man

Midway through the film, Swift cuts to a particularly gut-wrenching argument between Sink and O’Brien’s characters in a kitchen. 

“It is true that most of the time I was behind the monitor watching Sadie perform, I was physically clenching my chest,” Swift explained.

“All Too Well” has long been a favorite song of Swift’s devoted fans, so much so that she finally released the mythic, extended version of the track on her “Red"album last November.