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
Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
It's obvious that I must explain what I want from an actor, but I don't want to discuss everything I ask him… — 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
When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Take Einstein; wasn't he looking for something stable and changeless in this enormous, constantly changing melting pot that is the universe? He… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe… — 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
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
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
