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Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.
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 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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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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Violence is not the only means of persuasion.
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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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Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.
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Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.
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In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
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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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I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.
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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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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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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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A film you can explain in words is not a real 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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.
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The script is simply a series of notes for the film.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.
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Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
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The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.
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