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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

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Anton Corbijn
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 20
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Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard
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I'm a very, very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feel I get out of the people that I meet. But technically I don't think I'm very advanced. That never interested me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality.
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Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.
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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.
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I feel that when I shoot anything, and I have something beautiful, I just move on.
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I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.
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There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.
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With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.
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Photography has taken me from isolation.
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The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.
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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.
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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.
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I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.
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