A film that can be described in words is not really a film. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Another reason for switching to color is world television. In a few years, it will all be in color, and you can't… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I want an actor to try to give me what I ask in the best and most exact way possible. He mustn't… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I didn't like university life much at Bologna. The subjects I studied - economics and business administration - didn't interest me. I… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
My films have always had an element of immediate autobiography, in that I shoot any particular scene according to the mood I'm… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I've always played down the drama in my films. In my main scenes, there's never an opportunity for an actor to let… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time,… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films,… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I may film scenes I had no intention of filming; things suggest themselves on location, and we improvise. I try not to… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I dislike judging myself, but I will say I would be wealthy today if I had accepted all the films that have… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share
We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share
My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share
All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share
I'm not rich and maybe I'll never be rich. Money is useful - yes - but I don't worship it. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share
I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share
Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share
You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share
I want an actor to try to give me what I ask in the best and most exact way possible. He mustn't try to… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share
When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share
My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share
