Short Quotes - Author Michelangelo Antonioni Showing 1 - 17 of 17 Add Quote But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after. Michelangelo Antonioni Upvote0 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. Michelangelo Antonioni Conscience Upvote0 A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own. Michelangelo Antonioni Upvote0 Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing. Michelangelo Antonioni Being Upvote0 When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film. Michelangelo Antonioni Being Upvote0 We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean. Michelangelo Antonioni Society Upvote0 I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like. Michelangelo Antonioni Future Upvote0 I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules. Michelangelo Antonioni Time Upvote0 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 Society Upvote0 I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science. Michelangelo Antonioni Science Upvote0 In Blow-up I used my head instinctively! Michelangelo Antonioni Upvote0 Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer. Michelangelo Antonioni Living Upvote0 When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it. Michelangelo Antonioni Film Upvote0 When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them. Michelangelo Antonioni Nature Upvote0 You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters. Michelangelo Antonioni Actors Upvote0 Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance. Michelangelo Antonioni People Upvote0 Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot. Michelangelo Antonioni Upvote0