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I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.

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 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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A film you can explain in words is not a real film.
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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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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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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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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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In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
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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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Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.
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The script is simply a series of notes for the film.
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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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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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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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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 family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb, the world war we've made, the new philosophies we've created certainly something is happening to man, so why go against it, why oblige this new man to live by the mechanisms and regulations of the past?
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When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.
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In any case, the idea of giving all of reality is overly simple and absurd.
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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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