Anton Corbijn

So, you know, I was good friends with Paul Morley, who was part of SETI T Records.

So I went on the street and there was some demonstration near the Bank of England.

I filmed all kinds of things and put it together.

It's not very good, you know, but it was my entree, if you like, and...

Then I did this band in Germany, Palais Chambourg, and then Paul Morley asked me to do Dr. Mabuse by Propaganda.

And that actually got on top of the Pops, or some got shown.

And then David Silvian asked me to do a video for Red Guitar, and so it sort of went on from there.

And I was a very inexperienced filmmaker.

It was basically photographs, in a way, in sequence.

Not much moved.

I'm moving pictures.

That changed once I started to film with myself.

And that was with Depeche Mode in 86.

And then I started to feel a bit more like I understood the medium a bit more.

But then, you know, I'd made many videos and people said, well, you're making films really because there's stories in there for A to B.

But, you know, it's so easy to make a video to music.

If the music is good, people accept anything to go with it.

So I didn't really feel encouraged by my videos to make movies.

I got all these script sends over years, and I never thought I was the guy to do that.

Until there was a story about Ian Curtis, who I'd met and knew a little bit, and still loved that music that Geordie Fisher made.