Anton Corbijn

So you could tell when he was speaking.

So what I did was I used him as a voiceover.

So you never saw him speaking because I didn't want to give away that he was so ill.

Yeah, it's a fun little film, I think.

And it's the only thing that really exists on Beefheart from the last 20 years of his life.

Well, I hope that's the case, yeah.

Yeah, I don't see myself like that, but it's nice to be described as such.

You know, I do feel that the nice thing with photography is that, you know, I go somewhere, I take a picture, and that's what I give to the world.

And people can make it their own.

And I've been persuaded sometimes to tell stories about the making of a certain photograph.

And sometimes I'm

I give in because the stories are sometimes so good, but at the same time, I think it diminishes the power of the photograph.

So it's difficult.

Because if you don't know anything about the story and you look at pictures, you can wonder how it came about and what happened before or after.

If I tell you how things came about, then that becomes how you look at the picture.

And I think it's a shame that it takes some of the power of photography away.

The video definitely was, yes.

The photographs were more me.

The video came about because Courtney told Kurt about my videos for Echo and the Bunnymen, because he lived in Liverpool for a bit.

And he liked those videos, so he came with a story for the video.