Anton Corbijn Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“My world is much bigger than music, and that's why I always fight the 'rock' label.”

“There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.”

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

“With a film, you try to keep your vision in it. I think with 'The American' and 'Control' I managed to do that.”

“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.”

“'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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”