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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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Age: 94 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 29
Died: 2007
Died: July 30
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
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An-tung-ni-ao-ni
Nothing
Hollywood
Believe
Except
Like
Nobody
Cable
People
Anyone
Cables
Talking
Penalty
Death
Penalties
Doesn
Nowhere
Without
Paying
More quotes by Michelangelo Antonioni
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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The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.
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A film that can be described in words is not really a film.
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Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
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A film you can explain in words is not a real film.
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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 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 don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
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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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In any case, the idea of giving all of reality is overly simple and absurd.
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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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Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.
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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 forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.
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I want an actor to try to give me what I ask in the best and most exact way possible. He mustn't try to find out more, because then there's the danger that he'll become his own director.
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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
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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In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
Michelangelo Antonioni
Life should be taken ironically otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.
Michelangelo Antonioni
We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.
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