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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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More quotes by Michelangelo Antonioni
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 we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.
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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 meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.
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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 man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.
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I've always played down the drama in my films. In my main scenes, there's never an opportunity for an actor to let go of everything he's got inside. I always try to tone down the acting, because my stories demand it, to the point where I might change a script so that an actor has no opportunity to come out well.
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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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A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
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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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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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
Michelangelo Antonioni
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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Life should be taken ironically otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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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