Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Michelangelo Antonioni
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“A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.”
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“All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.”
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“But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.”
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“Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.”
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“I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.”
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“I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.”
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“I can never understand how we have been able to follow these worn-out tracks, which have been laid down by panic in the face of nature.”
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“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.”
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“I mean simply to say that 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.”
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“I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.”
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