Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series.
I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.
It's only when people get involved, when there's money involved, that you have a lot opinions around you. I try not to listen to them too much.
I feel that when I shoot anything, and I have something beautiful, I just move on.
I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.
I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been in studios so often, I know the whole process. The mystery's gone from it. I think it's important to keep mystery into our lives. There's a longing connected with it.
Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.
I'm actually not so sure what I'm hoping to find making photographs. 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 don't know how I go about it. I also don't know how exactly what I set out to get other than these two things.
