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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.

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Michelangelo Antonioni
Age: 94 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 29
Died: 2007
Died: July 30
Film Director
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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.
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Life should be taken ironically otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.
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I read somewhere that happiness is like the bluebird of Maeterlinck: Try to catch it and it loses its color. It's like trying to hold water in your hands. The more you squeeze it, the more the water runs away.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain.
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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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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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