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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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Michelangelo Antonioni
Age: 94 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 29
Died: 2007
Died: July 30
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The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb, the world war we've made, the new philosophies we've created certainly something is happening to man, so why go against it, why oblige this new man to live by the mechanisms and regulations of the past?
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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 is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on 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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I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.
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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 forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.
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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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A film you can explain in words is not a real film.
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I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.
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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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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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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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A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.
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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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The script is simply a series of notes for the film.
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Neorealism taught us to follow the characters with the camera, allowing each shot its own real interior time. Well, I became tired of all this I could no longer stand real time. In order to function, a shot must show only what is useful.
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Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.
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I didn't like university life much at Bologna. The subjects I studied - economics and business administration - didn't interest me. I wanted to make films. I was glad when I was graduated. Yet it's odd on graduation day, I was overcome with a terrible sadness. I realized that my youth was over and now the struggle had begun.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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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Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
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