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Quotes from Cahiers du Cinema — Michelangelo Antonioni

1912–2007 Italy

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The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development — whether psychological or material — one must pass on to the actual realization.

Cahiers du Cinema (1960)

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.

Cahiers du Cinema (1960)

I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot.

Cahiers du Cinema (1960)

A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply.

Cahiers du Cinema (1960)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michelangelo Antonioni (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.