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
Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too… — 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 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
Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional… — 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 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
