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. Michelangelo Antonioni More Quotes by Michelangelo Antonioni More Quotes From Michelangelo Antonioni I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain. Michelangelo Antonioni style technique brain Neorealism taught us to follow the characters with the camera, allowing each shot its own real interior time. Well, I became tired of all this; I could no longer stand real time. In order to function, a shot must show only what is useful. Michelangelo Antonioni tired real character 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? Michelangelo Antonioni philosophy war past After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules. Michelangelo Antonioni cinema three two 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. Michelangelo Antonioni use beautiful art The way I relax, what I like doing most, is watching. That's why I like traveling, to have new things before my eyes - even a new face. I enjoy myself like that and can stay for hours, looking at things, people, scenery. Michelangelo Antonioni relax eye people I'm not rich and maybe I'll never be rich. Money is useful - yes - but I don't worship it. Michelangelo Antonioni rich-money rich worship All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone. Michelangelo Antonioni gone stuff attitude Ingmar Bergman is a long way from me, but I admire him. He, too, concentrates a great deal on individuals; and although the individual is what interests him most, we are very far apart. His individuals are very different from mine; his problems are different from mine - but he's a great director. So is Fellini, for that matter. Michelangelo Antonioni different long directors I didn't like university life much at Bologna. The subjects I studied - economics and business administration - didn't interest me. I wanted to make films. I was glad when I was graduated. Yet it's odd; on graduation day, I was overcome with a terrible sadness. I realized that my youth was over and now the struggle had begun. Michelangelo Antonioni sadness struggle overcoming 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. Michelangelo Antonioni today ideas art Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting. Michelangelo Antonioni actresses acting way Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes. Michelangelo Antonioni inhuman film men 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. Michelangelo Antonioni trying giving directors 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. Michelangelo Antonioni sound feelings men I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules. Michelangelo Antonioni liberty practice long The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning. Michelangelo Antonioni drained art People are always misquoting me. Michelangelo Antonioni misquoting people I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best. Michelangelo Antonioni middle film class Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th century, when industrialization was just beginning: gray, brown and smoky. Color didn't exist. Today, instead, most everything is colored. The pipe running from the basement to the 12th floor is green because it carries steam. The one carrying electricity is red, and that with water is purple. Also, plastic colors have filled our homes, even revolutionized our taste. Pop art grew out of that and was possible because of this change in taste. Michelangelo Antonioni home running art
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