Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection. Anton Corbijn More Quotes by Anton Corbijn More Quotes From Anton Corbijn With a film, you try to keep your vision in it. I think with 'The American' and 'Control' I managed to do that. Anton Corbijn control think you vision 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 find never hard beauty Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians. Anton Corbijn musicians things focus people I do have an ego, but I acknowledge the help I get. Anton Corbijn help get ego acknowledge 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 direction best you work I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move. Anton Corbijn only you film action 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 step never me music '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 control feel experience life 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 you man god father 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 control never my-own language Directing film is the hardest thing I have ever done. Anton Corbijn the-hardest-thing hardest film done I don't like fast editing. Anton Corbijn fast like editing I love body language. Anton Corbijn body-language language body love
