Latest Anton Corbijn Quotes from Interviews

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• I think some people need the assurance of people around them and ideas worked out in advance. I think it keeps me an edge that to be creative on the spot. You have to think of things to do when you meet people. You limit your choices from the beginning. So I don't bring a lot of lenses, cameras, all these elements that can help the picture to a shooting. You confine yourself to, say, one room and you just make it work. You become very creative in that little space. You have left a lot of other options out of the game.

  Anton Corbijn

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think the fact that you have long - term relationships, this is a very unusual thing in the world, and I thought it was fantastic because you build up a trust. Each time you photograph the person, you try to do something else.

  Anton Corbijn

  Thinking, Long, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  People, Interesting, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I come unprepared to shooting. 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 was given very little time to photograph people and I was very scared.

  Anton Corbijn

  People, Scared, Photograph

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Thinking, Important, Musician

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes the person is a disappointment. But that's the risk. It informs me a lot about the character of a person if I know their work first.

  Anton Corbijn

  Disappointment, Character, People

  "Anton Corbijn’s Spy Games". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2014.

• Sometimes you don't know if your memory is because you really experienced it or because you look at your old pictures. I have a nice picture of myself held up by my grandfather and my father standing next to me. We all have the same name - we're all called Anton Corbijn. That's something I cherish.

  Anton Corbijn

  Memories, Father, Nice

  "Anton Corbijn’s Spy Games". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2014.

• My photography is very European. In America, I always get the sense that people are comforted by understanding what they're looking at. Photography's quite clear here [in the U.S.], it's very well-explained. My photography's perhaps not as well-explained.

  Anton Corbijn

  Photography, America, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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, Ideas, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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

  People, Trying, Too Much

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I feel that when I shoot anything, and I have something beautiful, I just move on.

  Anton Corbijn

  Beautiful, Moving, Just Move On

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

  Anton Corbijn

  Important, Body, Language

  Source: www.esquire.com