Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes

    She isn't my wife, really. We just have some kids. No, she isn't. That's why I don't live with her.
    Michelangelo Antonioni
    Family
    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
    Work
    Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
    Michelangelo Antonioni
    Film
    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. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.
    Michelangelo Antonioni
    Film
    I am not a theoretician of the cinema. If you ask me what directing is, the first answer that comes into my head is: I don't know.
    Michelangelo Antonioni
    Film
    For me, from the moment when the first, still unformed, idea comes into my head until the projection of the rushes, the process of making a film constitutes a single piece of work. I mean that I cannot become interested in anything, day or night, which is not that film. Let no one imagine that this is a romantic pose — on the contrary. I become relatively more lucid, more attentive, and almost feel as if I were intelligent and more ready to understand.
    Michelangelo Antonioni
    Creativity
    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. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let me thoughts wander freely.
    Michelangelo Antonioni
    Creativity
    I find that it is very useful to look over the location and to feel out the atmosphere while waiting for the actors. It may happen that the images before my eyes coincide with those I had in my mind, but this is not frequently the case. It more often happens that there is something insincere or artificial about the image one has thought of. Here again is another way of improvising.
    Michelangelo Antonioni
    Creativity
    The principle behind the cinema, like that behind all the arts, rests on a choice. It is, in Camus' words, "the revolt of the artist against the real." If one holds to this principle, what difference can it make by what means reality is revealed? Whether the author of a film seizes on the real in a novel, in a newspaper story or in his own imagination, what counts is the way he isolates it, stylizes it, makes it his own.
    Michelangelo Antonioni
    Film

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