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’ve gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it’s best when you can begin each day anew. – Anton Corbijn
I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I’m a rare breed. – Anton Corbijn
It’s so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch. – 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
I wanted to move away from Holland for my work because I felt that things would be better for me in England. But when I heard Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’, that pushed me towards making the move and making it real. I met them within 12 days of moving to England. – 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
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
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
In England, I’m already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I’m not a rock photographer at all. – Anton Corbijn
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
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
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
Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it’s writers or directors or painters or musicians. – Anton Corbijn
I think if you don’t feel passionate about the first movie you’re doing, in the end the project will lack something because you don’t have enough experience to make the movie something special. – Anton Corbijn
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
If you’re an artist, it’s OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the film, and the film becomes you; you breathe it. – Anton Corbijn
