Anton Corbijn

“Analog is more beautiful than digital, really, but we go for comfort.”

“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.”

“A lot of scripts that I was given I didn't feel were right for me, because I didn't feel anything for them - I didn't feel like I was going to change in life and start directing.”

“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.”

“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 don't want to knock photography, and I don't feel that film is up there but photography isn't. I think they're next to each other really, you know. There's an incredible strength to a still picture. Or there can be an incredible strength to a still picture that can outlive you. That can outlive a film.”

“I've finally become an old guy.”

“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.”

“I'm not educated as a filmmaker, so it's quite a jump for me.”

“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.”

“I don't like fast editing.”

“I feel a responsibility to myself, and not so much for the world at large. Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.”

“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.”

“Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.”

“Directing film is the hardest thing I have ever done.”

“I'm not totally blind to the fact that I like people to see my work, but if it's not something I would enjoy seeing in a magazine, then I think I shouldn't be making it. I think that I don't represent only myself, I represent more people; I mean, if I like it, then I think more people will like it because I think I'm quite a normal guy.”

“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.”

“There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.”

“I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move.”