Anton Corbijn

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. ”

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

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

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. ”

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 have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed. ”

If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know. ”

I love body language. ”

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. ”

Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director of, because I had an emotional attachment to the whole story. And because of that experience, I feel that I can try other films. I didn't set out to become a director. ”