-
My world is much bigger than music, and that's why I always fight the 'rock' label.
Anton Corbijn -
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
-
I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.
Anton Corbijn -
A lot of scripts that I was given I didn't feel were right for me, because I didn't feel anything for them - I didn't feel like I was going to change in life and start directing.
Anton Corbijn -
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 -
My first pictures are from 1972, and my first proper camera dates back to 1973. During the first year I used my father's camera. It had a flash on it, which I don't like, but I didn't know anything about photography back then, so it was just what I did.
Anton Corbijn -
In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.
Anton Corbijn -
I don't like fast editing.
Anton Corbijn
-
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 -
I'm not educated as a filmmaker, so it's quite a jump for me.
Anton Corbijn -
I've finally become an old guy.
Anton Corbijn -
It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.
Anton Corbijn -
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 -
There's only one music video that had an emotional impact on me, and that's 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash. That's exceptional. There is no music video I can think of apart from that one that really reaches you inside.
Anton Corbijn
-
'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director of, because I had an emotional attachment to the whole story. And because of that experience, I feel that I can try other films. I didn't set out to become a director.
Anton Corbijn -
If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the film, and the film becomes you; you breathe it.
Anton Corbijn -
I've always thought photography was a bit of an adventure, so to come home with the film, develop it, then look at the results has more of a sense of excitement.
Anton Corbijn -
Film was something that I didn't see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you work with a crew and a film camera, are the closest to film I've ever been. That is the only schooling I've ever had.
Anton Corbijn -
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 -
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
-
I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.
Anton Corbijn -
My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I incorporated some things from the music videos into my photography again, by arranging things more.
Anton Corbijn -
In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.
Anton Corbijn -
I wanted to move away from Holland for my work because I felt that things would be better for me in England. But when I heard Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures', that pushed me towards making the move and making it real. I met them within 12 days of moving to England.
Anton Corbijn