Michelangelo Antonioni: One of the problems of the future world will b...

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.

Michelangelo Antonioni

remember boys country

I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.

Michelangelo Antonioni

imagine i-can

I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.

Michelangelo Antonioni

depressing ties children

In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

Michelangelo Antonioni

simple reality ideas

There are many ways of communicating. Some hold the theory that new forms of communication between people can be obtained through hallucinogenic drugs.

Michelangelo Antonioni

drug communication people

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.

Michelangelo Antonioni

drug party want

A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time, which was as exceptional as the reality around us. Our major interest focused on that and on how we could relate to it. Later, when the situation normalized and post-war life returned to what it had been in peacetime, it became important to see the intimate, interior consequences of all that had happened.

Michelangelo Antonioni

war reality school

Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless.

Michelangelo Antonioni

innovation plot stories

I would throw out the sense of nation, "good breeding," certain forms and ceremonies that govern relationships - perhaps even jealousy. We're not aware of all of them yet, though we suffer from them. And they mislead us not only about ethics but also about aesthetics.

Michelangelo Antonioni

mislead-us ethics suffering

Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.

Michelangelo Antonioni

goes-on diaries interesting

I don't know whether I am ever bored. I never look at myself.

Michelangelo Antonioni

bored knows looks

Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.

Michelangelo Antonioni

judging order way

I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.

Michelangelo Antonioni

empty film thinking

Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to me anymore. I've assimilated them - so, enough, they are a closed chapter. This also applies to film directors.

Michelangelo Antonioni

passion use directors

When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about.

Michelangelo Antonioni

running order thinking

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

Michelangelo Antonioni

disaster actors want

Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.

Michelangelo Antonioni

drug actors acting

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.

Michelangelo Antonioni

letting-go opportunity drama

I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.

Michelangelo Antonioni

actresses forget

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

Michelangelo Antonioni

sociologists imagine politician

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.