“You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.” IfsWantPartyDrugPotLsd Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“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
“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.” IfsKnowsWayFeelsDoneStoriesFilmCertainDevelopmentInnovationTricksUselessPlotPredictable Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written on the page is right or not. In the script, you describe imagined scenes, but it's all suspended in mid-air. Often, an actor viewed against a wall or a landscape, or seen through a window, is much more eloquent than the lines you've given him. So then you take out the lines. This happens often to me and I end up saying what I want with a movement or a gesture.” IfsWantLooksEndsHappensActorsGivenLinesWrittenAirMovementWallScenePagesWindowCamerasStartingScriptsLandscapeFixedGesturesHighwaysEloquentStarting PointSuspended Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.” IfsTryingActorsToo MuchIntellectualUnnatural Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“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.” IfsHas BeensWould BeTodayFilmOrderFeltJudgingAcceptedWealthyDislikeJudging Myself Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayBelieveMatterUseAsksToo MuchEssentialsDon't BelieveAsk Me Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.” IfsKnowsWantMindDoeFilmDifficultDifferencesResultsSceneShots Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
