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I dislike judging myself, but...

I dislike judging myself, but I will say I would be wealthy today if I had accepted all the films that have been offered to me with large sums of money. But I've always refused, in order to do what I felt like doing.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

Another reason for switching ...

Another reason for switching to color is world television. In a few years, it will all be in color, and you can't compete against that with black-and-white films.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

A particular type of film eme...

A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time, which was as exceptional as the reality around us. Our major interest focused on that and on how we could relate to it. Later, when the situation normalized and post-war life returned to what it had been in peacetime, it became important to see the intimate, interior consequences of all that had happened.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

My films have always had an e...

My films have always had an element of immediate autobiography, in that I shoot any particular scene according to the mood I'm in that day, according to the little daily experiences I've had and am having - but I don't tell what has happened to me. I would like to do something more strictly autobiographical, but perhaps I never will, because it isn't interesting enough.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

When you work on a character,...

When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

There are many ways of commun...

There are many ways of communicating. Some hold the theory that new forms of communication between people can be obtained through hallucinogenic drugs.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

It's only human and natural t...

It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a director, have to see the film as a whole. He must therefore collaborate selflessly, totally.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

I've always played down the d...

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 57 quotes

Sometimes actors' mistakes gi...

Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

Hollywood doesn't believe in ...

Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

I'm not rich and maybe I'll n...

I'm not rich and maybe I'll never be rich. Money is useful - yes - but I don't worship it.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

I'll go on making films until...

I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

It's untrue to say the colors...

It's untrue to say the colors I use are not those of reality. They are real: The red I use is red; the green, green; blue, blue; and yellow, yellow. It's a matter of arranging them differently from the way I find them, but they are always real colors. So it's not true that when I tint a road or a wall, they become unreal. They stay real, though colored differently for my scene.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

When I see a good film, it's ...

When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

We know that behind every ima...

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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All I know is that we are loa...

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

One of the problems of the fu...

One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

There's much talk about the p...

There's much talk about the problems of youth, but young people are not a problem. It's a natural evolution of things. We, who have known only how to make war and slaughter people, have no right to judge them, nor can we teach them anything.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

Women are a finer filter of r...

Women are a finer filter of reality. They can sniff things.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

The women I like, no matter w...

The women I like, no matter what nationality, all seem to have more or less the same qualities. Perhaps this is because one goes looking for them - that is, you like that type of woman and then look for her.

Michelangelo Antonioni 57 quotes

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