Anton Corbijn Quotes
It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
Once you make decisions, you can't go back, but in photography, that process can continue. With film, you have to eliminate all the possibilities and make the one possibility work the best for you, so you have to become very creative with the direction you've chosen.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
I don't want to continue to do what I did when I was 20. I would like to continue to develop myself and not continue to hang around with bands.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
I'm not totally blind to the fact that I like people to see my work, but if it's not something I would enjoy seeing in a magazine, then I think I shouldn't be making it. I think that I don't represent only myself, I represent more people; I mean, if I like it, then I think more people will like it because I think I'm quite a normal guy.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
I feel a responsibility to myself, and not so much for the world at large. Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it was never a step to something else. I approached it seriously.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
I do have an ego, but I acknowledge the help I get.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God, I think. He's the father of mankind, almost.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
Directing film is the hardest thing I have ever done.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
I had no agent, and I was getting approached by so many people that I tried to escape for a while because I couldn't believe that world. Photography is not an industry, and suddenly an industry came to me, so I sort of had to accept it in the end and get an agent.
Anton Corbijn
Dutch photographer
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