Michelangelo Antonioni citations (39 citations, Page 2)

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Michelangelo Antonioni: Citations en anglais

“Modern life is very difficult for people who are unprepared. But this new environment will eventually facilitate more realistic relationships between people.”

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Michelangelo Antonioni

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

“I've always said that the actor is only an element of the image, rarely the most important. The actor is important with his dialogue, with the landscape, with a gesture — but the actor in himself is nothing.”

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Encountering Directors interview (1969)

“I am not a theoretician of the cinema. If you ask me what directing is, the first answer that comes into my head is: I don't know.”

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Cahiers du Cinema (1960)

“People are always misquoting me.”

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In response to interviewer stating that he had said that the two main components of his technique were the camera and the actors.
Encountering Directors interview (1969)

“My characters are ambiguous. Call them that. I don't mind. I am ambiguous myself. Who isn't?”

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Encountering Directors interview (1969)

“When we say a character in my films doesn't function, we mean he doesn't function as a person, but he does function as a character — that is, until you take him as a symbol. At that point it is you who are not functioning. Why not simply accept him as a character, without judging him? Accept him for what he is. Accept him as a character in a story, without claiming that he derives or acquires meaning from that story. There may be meanings, but they are different for all of us.”

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Encountering Directors interview (1969)

“I try to avoid repetitions of any shot. It isn't easy to find one in my films. You might, I suppose, see something twice, but it would be rare. And then, you know, every line requires its own kind of shot. The American method of shooting one actor continuously, then moving to the other, then intercutting both — this method is wrong. A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.”

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Encountering Directors interview (1969)

“When we find ourselves up against practical obstacles that can't be overcome, we must go forward. You either make the film as you can or don't make it at all.”

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Encountering Directors interview (1969)

“The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.”

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As quoted by the interviewer, from a preface to his screenplays
Encountering Directors interview (1969)

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