Michelangelo antonioni

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...

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

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.

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

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

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

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.