It's untrue to say the colors I use are not those of reality. They are real: The red I use is red;… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the… — 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
A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own. — 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
Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people… — 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
The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
