Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Thinking, Shooting, Want

  "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

• A film you can explain in words is not a real film.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Real, Film

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• A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Film

• 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

  Character, Space, Surfing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Character, Fighting, Cutting

• 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

  Digging, Research, Firsts

  Esquire, August 1970.

• I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Class, Film, Middle

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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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• 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

  Black And White, Color, Years

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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've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Brain, Style, Technique

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

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Film, Leaving Me, Conditions

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• I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and yet another to Freud; so it is not possible to give a single definition, one that will exhaust the subject. It is a question bordering on philosophy, and I'm not a philosopher nor a sociologist. My business is to tell stories, to narrate with images - nothing else. If I do make films about alienation - to use that word that is so ambiguous - they are about characters, not about me.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Philosophy, Character, Mean

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

• The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Scripts, Film, Notes

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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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• I may film scenes I had no intention of filming; things suggest themselves on location, and we improvise. I try not to think about it too much. Then, in the cutting room, I take the film and start to put it together, and only then do I begin to get an idea of what it is about.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Cutting, Thinking, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Men, Film, Inhuman

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

• Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that moment, the film seems quite easy. But then the others come in and everything becomes difficult.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Order, Cameras, Looks

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

• 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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• Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Innovation, Plot, Stories

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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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• 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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• 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

  War, School, Reality

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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'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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