Anton Corbijn Quotes

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Anton Corbijn

Profession : Director

Birth : May 20, 1955

I don't like fast editing.

Anton Corbijn

When you make a movie, you know you're making a long-form thing, so the visuals are different than for a video where it has to be more obvious or in your face, I think, a little bit.

Anton Corbijn

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

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

Anton Corbijn

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

I'm not educated as a filmmaker, so it's quite a jump for me.

Anton Corbijn

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

I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move.

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

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

I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't know how big the audience will be.

Anton Corbijn

When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attachment's largely gone for the file-sharing generation.

Anton Corbijn

With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.

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 love body language.

Anton Corbijn

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

I happen to take photographs, and they happen to be used for a lot of things, but they're not really made to order. They're paid for, but they're not made for order. I've never really done real commercial work.

Anton Corbijn