Anton Corbijn Quotes

Anton Corbijn — Dutch Director born on May 20, 1955,

Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard is a Dutch photographer, music video director, and film director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both bands for almost three decades. Some of his works include music videos for Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" , U2's "One" , Bryan Adams' "Do I Have to Say the Words? and Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" , as well as the Ian Curtis biographical film Control , The American , and A Most Wanted Man , based on John le Carré's 2008 novel of the same name... (wikipedia)

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

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 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.

When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attachment's largely gone for the file-sharing generation.

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.