“I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.” MenWantFeelingsEarthSoundModernAnalysisProphecyModern Society Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“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
“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
“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 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
“Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.” WantActorsTerribleDirectMethodDisaster Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.” ThinkingWantFilmShooting 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
“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
“The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.” WantMomentsRealityHappensObjectsPhotographerPhilosopherBlowDisappear Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
