I do have an ego, but I acknowledge the help I get. Anton Corbijn More Quotes by Anton Corbijn More Quotes From 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 assistants light photograph I'm actually not so sure what I'm hoping to find making photographs. 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. I don't know how I go about it. I also don't know how exactly what I set out to get other than these two things. Anton Corbijn different people interesting The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films. Anton Corbijn balance photography simple Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design. Anton Corbijn video design photography It's only when people get involved, when there's money involved, that you have a lot opinions around you. I try not to listen to them too much. Anton Corbijn too-much trying people My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England. Anton Corbijn holland life-changing england I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town. Anton Corbijn amsterdam village boys 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 kingdoms years firsts 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 emotional hurt thinking I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been in studios so often, I know the whole process. The mystery's gone from it. I think it's important to keep mystery into our lives. There's a longing connected with it. Anton Corbijn musician important thinking I feel that when I shoot anything, and I have something beautiful, I just move on. Anton Corbijn just-move-on beautiful moving I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there. Anton Corbijn photography two thinking Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series. Anton Corbijn character people ideas Analog is more beautiful than digital, really, but we go for comfort. Anton Corbijn go digital comfort beautiful 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 think you passion love 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 continue myself like want 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 doing being music photography I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills. Anton Corbijn feel never you right-person 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 step you music work I've finally become an old guy. Anton Corbijn finally old become guy
