Life Taken Quotes by Michelangelo Antonioni

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

I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

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

My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I'm not rich and maybe I'll never be rich. Money is useful - yes - but I don't worship it.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

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

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

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

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

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

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

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