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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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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.
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A film you can explain in words is not a real film.
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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 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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Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
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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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Life should be taken ironically otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.
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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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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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Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.
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A director is a man, therefore he has ideas he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply.
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Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.
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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 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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In any case, the idea of giving all of reality is overly simple and absurd.
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Violence is not the only means of persuasion.
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A film that can be described in words is not really a film.
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You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
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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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