Latest Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes from Interviews

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• I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Believe, Degrees, Shooting

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• 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

  Please Me, Goes On, Lasts

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• 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

  Interesting, Elements, Littles

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• It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  People, Different, Easy

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

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Worship, Rich, Rich Money

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• My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.

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  Film, Leaving Me, Conditions

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• 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

  Order, Judging, Would Be

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• Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Interesting, Diaries, Goes On

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• Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Order, Judging, Way

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• Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Taken, Tragedy, Should

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• I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Thinking, Film, Empty

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• I don't know whether I am ever bored. I never look at myself.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Bored, Looks, Knows

• Ingmar Bergman is a long way from me, but I admire him. He, too, concentrates a great deal on individuals; and although the individual is what interests him most, we are very far apart. His individuals are very different from mine; his problems are different from mine - but he's a great director. So is Fellini, for that matter.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Long, Directors, Different

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• 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

  Running, Thinking, Order

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• Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to me anymore. I've assimilated them - so, enough, they are a closed chapter. This also applies to film directors.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Passion, Directors, Use

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• Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Acting, Way, Actresses

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• 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

  Letting Go, Drama, Opportunity

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• I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Actresses, Forget

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• Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Drug, Acting, Actors

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• Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

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  Actors, Want, Disaster

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• 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

  Directors, Actors, Film

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

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Mistake, Ideas, Giving

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• I want an actor to try to give me what I ask in the best and most exact way possible. He mustn't try to find out more, because then there's the danger that he'll become his own director.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Giving, Trying, Directors

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• If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Intellectual, Trying, Actors

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• It's obvious that I must explain what I want from an actor, but I don't want to discuss everything I ask him to do, because often my requests are completely instinctive and there are things I can't explain. It's like painting: You don't know why you use pink instead of blue. You simply feel that's how it should be - pink. Then the phone rings and you answer it. When you come back, you don't want pink anymore and you use blue - without knowing why. You can't help it; that's just the way it is.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Phones, Blue, Knowing

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