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A film that can be described in words is not really a film.
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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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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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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
I'm not rich and maybe I'll never be rich. Money is useful - yes - but I don't worship it.
Michelangelo Antonioni
In any case, the idea of giving all of reality is overly simple and absurd.
Michelangelo Antonioni
You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.
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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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Violence is not the only means of persuasion.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
Michelangelo Antonioni
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
Michelangelo Antonioni
A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.
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
Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.
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