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“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.”

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Michelangelo Antonioni was an Italian film director known for his unique style and profound insights into modern society. His films are characterized by complex narrative structures and philosophical themes. more

“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.”

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Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.”

Men Film Inhuman

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.”

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Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“Women are a finer filter of reality. They can sniff things.”

Reality Filters

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“The women I like, no matter what nationality, all seem to have more or less the same qualities. Perhaps this is because one goes looking for them - that is, you like that type of woman and then look for her.”

Looks Matter Seems Quality Type No Matter What Nationality

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“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.”

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Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“A woman's sex appeal is an inner matter. It stems from her mental make-up, basically. It's an attitude, not just a question of her physical features - that arrogant quality in a woman's femininity. Otherwise, all beautiful women would have sex appeal, which is not so.”

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Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.”

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“I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.”

I Can Imagine

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on love that is only about the conquest of happiness, the effort to arrive at what we call love. It's the struggle that has always interested those who produce works of art - literature, cinema or poetry.”

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Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

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