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The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Age: 94 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 29
Died: 2007
Died: July 30
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A film that can be described in words is not really a film.
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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 believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting.
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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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Violence is not the only means of persuasion.
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Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.
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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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In any case, the idea of giving all of reality is overly simple and absurd.
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A film you can explain in words is not a real film.
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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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Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.
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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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Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.
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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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Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.
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In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
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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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Life should be taken ironically otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.
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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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Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
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