I've always said that the actor is only an element of the image, rarely the most important. The actor is important with his dialogue, with the landscape, with a gesture - but the actor in himself is nothing. (Michelangelo Antonioni)

I've always said that the actor is only an element of the image, rarely the most important. The actor is important with his dialogue, with the landscape, with a gesture - but the actor in himself is nothing.

Michelangelo Antonioni

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