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Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Age: 94 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 29
Died: 2007
Died: July 30
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
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An-tung-ni-ao-ni
Talking
Nothing
Like
Nowhere
Hollywood
Nobody
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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 seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply.
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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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When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.
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I would throw out the sense of nation, good breeding, certain forms and ceremonies that govern relationships - perhaps even jealousy. We're not aware of all of them yet, though we suffer from them. And they mislead us not only about ethics but also about aesthetics.
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Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.
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A film that can be described in words is not really a film.
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Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.
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That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on love that is only about the conquest of happiness, the effort to arrive at what we call love. It's the struggle that has always interested those who produce works of art - literature, cinema or poetry.
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In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
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Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.
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The script is simply a series of notes for the film.
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The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.
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Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.
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I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain.
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Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that moment, the film seems quite easy. But then the others come in and everything becomes difficult.
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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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Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.
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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 object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.
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There's much talk about the problems of youth, but young people are not a problem. It's a natural evolution of things. We, who have known only how to make war and slaughter people, have no right to judge them, nor can we teach them anything.
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A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
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