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I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.

- Anton Corbijn

Best, Used, Gotten, Anew

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.

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America, I Think, Part, Metropolis

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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Love, Good, Maybe, Breed

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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Inside, Had, Video, Johnny

In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.

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Big, Had, Moved, Joy Division

My first pictures are from 1972, and my first proper camera dates back to 1973. During the first year I used my father's camera. It had a flash on it, which I don't like, but I didn't know anything about photography back then, so it was just what I did.

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Father, Year, About, Flash

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.

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Never, Discover, Models, Understood

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.

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Love, Tell, Same Thing, Versus

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.

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Doing, More, Some, Arranging

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.

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Doing, Think, I Think, Something Special

For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'

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Year, Clear, Had, OK

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.

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Art, Artist, Advantage, OK

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.

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Like, Going, Given, Scripts

Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God, I think. He's the father of mankind, almost.

- Anton Corbijn

Think, Mankind, I Think, Mandela

Film was something that I didn't see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you work with a crew and a film camera, are the closest to film I've ever been. That is the only schooling I've ever had.

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Fact, Videos, Been, Closest

I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

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Experience, Out, Putting, Whereas

I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the street, 'Do you like Anselm Kiefer?' He would stare at you with a blank stare, because these are not celebrities. They are celebrated in a specific circle.

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Average, Some, Very, Celebrated

Once you make decisions, you can't go back, but in photography, that process can continue. With film, you have to eliminate all the possibilities and make the one possibility work the best for you, so you have to become very creative with the direction you've chosen.

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Process, Possibilities, Very, Possibility

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.

- Anton Corbijn

Generation, Think, I Think, Vinyl

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.

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Blind, Fact, I Think, Represent

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.

- Anton Corbijn

Work, Assistants, Holland, Lights

I had no agent, and I was getting approached by so many people that I tried to escape for a while because I couldn't believe that world. Photography is not an industry, and suddenly an industry came to me, so I sort of had to accept it in the end and get an agent.

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Industry, Had, Agent, In The End

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

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Music, Design, Videos, Apart

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.

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Think, Next, Other, Outlive

I've always thought photography was a bit of an adventure, so to come home with the film, develop it, then look at the results has more of a sense of excitement.

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Thought, More, Always, Excitement

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

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Me, Educated, Quite, Filmmaker

Directing film is the hardest thing I have ever done.

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Hardest, Ever, Hardest Thing, Directing

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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Big, Very, Became, Big Thing

I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.

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I Am, Big, Always, Village

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.

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Think, Large, Trained, Upbringing

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