Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes & Sayings
18 most famous Michelangelo Antonioni quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an Italian director who passed away on 30 July, 2007.
“Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.”
“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.”
“I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.”
“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.”
“A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.”
“When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.”
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