Author: Michelangelo Antonioni

Quotes

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

- Michelangelo Antonioni

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

- Michelangelo Antonioni

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.

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.

- 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.

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

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

- 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.

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

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