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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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• Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in the future. We know only that it is something dynamic - unlike many ideas that have governed us.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Art, Ideas, Today

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

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  Thinking, Film, Empty

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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.

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  Phones, Blue, Knowing

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• The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Lying, Cinema, Possibility

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

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• 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.

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• Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Strong, Reality, Men

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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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• Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Talking, Hollywood

  Sunday Times, (London), June 20, 1971.

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• 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.

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  Long, Directors, Different

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• 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.

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  War, People, Judging

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

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Men, Film, Inhuman

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• I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Culture, Said

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

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Mean, Goes On, Knows

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

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• 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.

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• You cannot penetrate events with reportage.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Events, Penetrate

  Michelangelo Antonioni (2007). “The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema”

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• The way I relax, what I like doing most, is watching. That's why I like traveling, to have new things before my eyes - even a new face. I enjoy myself like that and can stay for hours, looking at things, people, scenery.

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  Eye, People, Relax

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

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Attitude, Gone, Stuff

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• I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Imagine, I Can

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• 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

  Government, Filled Up, Drug

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• Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Reality, Quality, Hard

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• The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Art, Drained

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• Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th century, when industrialization was just beginning: gray, brown and smoky. Color didn't exist. Today, instead, most everything is colored. The pipe running from the basement to the 12th floor is green because it carries steam. The one carrying electricity is red, and that with water is purple. Also, plastic colors have filled our homes, even revolutionized our taste. Pop art grew out of that and was possible because of this change in taste.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Running, Art, Home

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• That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on love that is only about the conquest of happiness, the effort to arrive at what we call love. It's the struggle that has always interested those who produce works of art - literature, cinema or poetry.

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  Art, Struggle, Love Is

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• 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

  People, Actors, Scene

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

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