Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes. Michelangelo Antonioni More Quotes by Michelangelo Antonioni More Quotes From Michelangelo Antonioni In Blow-up I used my head instinctively! Michelangelo Antonioni used blow When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him. Michelangelo Antonioni mind character looks My films have always had an element of immediate autobiography, in that I shoot any particular scene according to the mood I'm in that day, according to the little daily experiences I've had and am having - but I don't tell what has happened to me. I would like to do something more strictly autobiographical, but perhaps I never will, because it isn't interesting enough. Michelangelo Antonioni elements littles interesting 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. Michelangelo Antonioni wall air looks I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting. Michelangelo Antonioni shooting degrees believe Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere. Michelangelo Antonioni mistake giving ideas Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that moment, the film seems quite easy. But then the others come in and everything becomes difficult. Michelangelo Antonioni cameras order looks It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own. Michelangelo Antonioni different easy people It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a director, have to see the film as a whole. He must therefore collaborate selflessly, totally. Michelangelo Antonioni film actors directors I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit. Michelangelo Antonioni please-me lasts goes-on I dislike judging myself, but I will say I would be wealthy today if I had accepted all the films that have been offered to me with large sums of money. But I've always refused, in order to do what I felt like doing. Michelangelo Antonioni judging would-be order My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically. Michelangelo Antonioni leaving-me conditions film When I'm sure I have a story, I call my collaborators and we begin to discuss it. And we conduct studies of certain subjects to make sure of our terrain. Then, finally, in the last month or two, I write the story. Michelangelo Antonioni stories writing two Another reason for switching to color is world television. In a few years, it will all be in color, and you can't compete against that with black-and-white films. Michelangelo Antonioni black-and-white color years The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development- whether psychological or material- one must pass on to the actual realization. Michelangelo Antonioni intuition realization ideas 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. Michelangelo Antonioni character philosophy mean Women are a finer filter of reality. They can sniff things. Michelangelo Antonioni filters reality One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government. Michelangelo Antonioni filled-up drug government There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience. Michelangelo Antonioni censorship conscience 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. Michelangelo Antonioni quality matter looks
