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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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Age: 94 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 29
Died: 2007
Died: July 30
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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 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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Life should be taken ironically otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.
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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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A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.
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Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.
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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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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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Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.
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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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The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.
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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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I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.
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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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