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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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Age: 94 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 29
Died: 2007
Died: July 30
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I read somewhere that happiness is like the bluebird of Maeterlinck: Try to catch it and it loses its color. It's like trying to hold water in your hands. The more you squeeze it, the more the water runs away.
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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 struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.
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One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government.
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I've always dreamed of getting to know the women of other countries better. When I was a boy, I remember, I used to get angry at the thought that I did not know German or American or Swedish women.
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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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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 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.
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A film that can be described in words is not really a film.
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A woman's sex appeal is an inner matter. It stems from her mental make-up, basically. It's an attitude, not just a question of her physical features - that arrogant quality in a woman's femininity. Otherwise, all beautiful women would have sex appeal, which is not so.
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The script is simply a series of notes for the film.
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Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
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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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I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship that begins to exist between his body and the other things in the scene.
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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 made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.
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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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I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.
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In any case, the idea of giving all of reality is overly simple and absurd.
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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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