Cinema Quote by 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 what I'm still doing...”

Michelangelo Antonioni

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When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and…

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I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.

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

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We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is…

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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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.

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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…

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