Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes

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• All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid…
• A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.
• I may film scenes I had no intention of filming; things suggest themselves on location, and we improvise. I try not to think about it…
• In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
• Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.
• Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
• I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and…
• We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another,…
• You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine…
• When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.
• I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to…
• When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there…
• A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it…
• We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
• Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings…
• I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that…
• 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 what…
• The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the…
• Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
• Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

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