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A film you can explain in words is not a real 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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In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
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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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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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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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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 greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.
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My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...
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Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.
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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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One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government.
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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 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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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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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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In any case, the idea of giving all of reality is overly simple and absurd.
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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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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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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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When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.
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