“I read somewhere that happiness is like the bluebird of Maeterlinck: Try to catch it and it loses its color. It's like trying to hold water in your hands. The more you squeeze it, the more the water runs away.” TryingHandsRunningWaterLosesColorRunning AwayBluebird 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 want an actor to try to give me what I ask in the best and most exact way possible. He mustn't try to find out more, because then there's the danger that he'll become his own director.” WayWantGivingTryingActorsAsksDangerDirectorsGive Me Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“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.” TryingWellsStoriesMightFilmActorsOpportunityActingDramaSceneDemandLetting GoScriptsTone Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“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.” ThinkingTryingMayIdeasTogetherFilmRoomsToo MuchCuttingSceneIntentionLocation Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.” TryingShotsRepetition 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
