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Anton Corbijn

Profession : Director

Birth : May 20, 1955

There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.

Anton Corbijn

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

Anton Corbijn

I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.

Anton Corbijn

For me N.M.E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became their main photographer for five years, and that's really been the basis of everything I've been doing since.

Anton Corbijn

Directing film is the hardest thing I have ever done.

Anton Corbijn

Analog is more beautiful than digital, really, but we go for comfort.

Anton Corbijn

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

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

I don't want to knock photography, and I don't feel that film is up there but photography isn't. I think they're next to each other really, you know. There's an incredible strength to a still picture. Or there can be an incredible strength to a still picture that can outlive you. That can outlive a film.

Anton Corbijn

I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.

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

My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.

Anton Corbijn

I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the street, 'Do you like Anselm Kiefer?' He would stare at you with a blank stare, because these are not celebrities. They are celebrated in a specific circle.

Anton Corbijn

The only advantage of the CD is that you have a booklet that can tell a bit of a story, but the little covers are just boring. I love vinyl, and I have loads of it. It's the same thing as digital photography versus film photography. It's a quality thing.

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

I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.

Anton Corbijn

It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.

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

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 never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

Anton Corbijn