“I've always dreamed of getting to know the women of other countries better. When I was a boy, I remember, I used to get angry at the thought that I did not know German or American or Swedish women.” KnowsCountryRememberUsedBoysAngryOther CountriesSwedish Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb, the world war we've made, the new philosophies we've created; certainly something is happening to man, so why go against it, why oblige this new man to live by the mechanisms and regulations of the past?” KnowsMenWorldMadeWarPhilosophyTodayPastGrowthColdHappeningsWar Of The WorldsBombsLive ByMechanismRegulationCold WarAtomic BombFamilies Today Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“When I see nature, when I look into the sky, the dawn, the sun, the colors of insects, snow crystals, the night stars, I don't feel a need for God. Perhaps when I can no longer look and wonder, when I believe in nothing - then, perhaps, I might need something else. But I don't know what.” KnowsNeedsFeelsBelieveLooksI CanMightNightI BelieveStarsWonderSunSkyColorI Believe InSnowDawnInsectsCrystals Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.” KnowsStuffAttitudeGoneHabitCustomsLoadedStale Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“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.” KnowsArtIdeasTodayFunction Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Take Einstein; wasn't he looking for something stable and changeless in this enormous, constantly changing melting pot that is the universe? He sought fixed rules. Today, instead, it would be helpful to find all those rules that show how and why the universe is not fixed - how this dynamism develops and acts. Then maybe we will be able to explain many things, perhaps even art, because the old instruments of judgment, the old aesthetics, are no longer of any use to us - so much so that we no longer know what's beautiful and what isn't.” KnowsArtUseShowsWould BeTodayAbleBeautifulUniverseJudgmentArt IsInstrumentsEnormousFixedHelpfulPotStableAestheticsMeltingMelting PotDynamism 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
“I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.” KnowsMadeFilmClassMiddleMiddle Class Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship that begins to exist between his body and the other things in the scene.” KnowsShouldBodyActorsAttitudeScene Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“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.” KnowsWayWantFeelsShouldI CanHelpingUseActorsAsksAnswersKnowingPaintingBluePhonesObviousRingsRequest Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“I don't know whether I am ever bored. I never look at myself.” KnowsLooksBored Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.” KnowsArtRealityLastsBehindsCreativityPhotographyAbsolutesMysteriousFaithful 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 rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely.” KnowsFeelsSometimesDoneMomentsDesireAsksLeftHoursHalfMinutesSceneSpotsWanderShootingFifteenVirginsMy ThoughtsLeft AloneUnprepared 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
“We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.” KnowsMeanGoes OnConcepts Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
