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I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.
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'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 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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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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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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Violence is not the only means of persuasion.
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I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship that begins to exist between his body and the other things in the scene.
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A film you can explain in words is not a real film.
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I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.
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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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In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
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Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.
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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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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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Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.
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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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A film that can be described in words is not really a film.
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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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