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Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Age: 94 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 29
Died: 2007
Died: July 30
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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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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 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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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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Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.
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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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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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