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" I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it was never a step to something else. I approached it seriously. "

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

" '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. "

" I've finally become an old guy. "

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

The Hardest Thing

" 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. "

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

" With a film, you try to keep your vision in it. I think with 'The American' and 'Control' I managed to do that. "

" 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. "

" I don't like fast editing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love body language. "

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

" I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one. "

" 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. "

" I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I don't want to continue to do what I did when I was 20. I would like to continue to develop myself and not continue to hang around with bands. "

" 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. "

" I do have an ego, but I acknowledge the help I get. "

" The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films. "