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The script is simply a series of notes for the 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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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 film that can be described in words is not really a film.
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All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.
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A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.
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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'm not rich and maybe I'll never be rich. Money is useful - yes - but I don't worship it.
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In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
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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 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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Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.
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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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Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that moment, the film seems quite easy. But then the others come in and everything becomes difficult.
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Violence is not the only means of persuasion.
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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'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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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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Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
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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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Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
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A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
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