Michelangelo Antonioni quotes - page 2

I have always imposed my wishes on the cameraman. Moreover, I have always picked them at the outset of their careers and, to a certain extent, have formed them myself. (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Don't regard my characters as symbols of a determined society. See them as something that sparks a reaction within you so that they become a personal experience. The critic is a spectator and an artist insofar as he transforms the work into a personal thing of his own.
Michelangelo Antonioni
I mean simply to say that 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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.
Michelangelo Antonioni
I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible.
Michelangelo Antonioni
This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.
Michelangelo Antonioni
I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot.
Michelangelo Antonioni
I always have motives, but I forget them.
Michelangelo Antonioni
We are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science. Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
Michelangelo Antonioni
You must be painter who takes a canvas and does what he likes with it.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Everything depends on what you put in front of the camera, what perspectives you create, contrasts, colors. (Michelangelo Antonioni)
I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way.
Michelangelo Antonioni
You mustn't ask me to explain everything I do. I can't. That's that.
Michelangelo Antonioni
She isn't my wife, really. We just have some kids. No. No kids. Sometimes, though, it feels as if we had kids.
Michelangelo Antonioni
My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
Michelangelo Antonioni
In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
Michelangelo Antonioni
All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance. (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
Michelangelo Antonioni
When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.
Michelangelo Antonioni
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
Michelangelo Antonioni
My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...
Michelangelo Antonioni