“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.” IfsThinkingGivingMeanPhilosophyCharacterStoriesUseFilmTermOne ThingSubjectsDefinitionsPhilosopherAlienationAmbiguousHegelSociologists Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Neorealism taught us to follow the characters with the camera, allowing each shot its own real interior time. Well, I became tired of all this; I could no longer stand real time. In order to function, a shot must show only what is useful.” WellsRealCharacterShowsOrderTaughtShotsFunctionCamerasTiredAllowingInteriorsTaught Us Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“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.” MindLooksCharacterFormOught Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“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.” KnowsCharacterFilmActorsSpaceImagineStandingEmptyBackgroundsSurfingSpectatorsEmpty Space Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.” WantCharacterSocialSpaceImagineEmptyBackgroundsVisibleEmpty Space Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“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.” WayTryingWholeCharacterProblemFilmFightingSinCuttingFailingConscienceTricksBags Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
