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Quotes from Encountering Directors interview — Michelangelo Antonioni

1912–2007 Italy

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Everything depends on what you put in front of the camera, what perspectives you create, contrasts, colors.

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

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

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

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

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

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.

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

You must be painter who takes a canvas and does what he likes with it.

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

I always have motives, but I forget them.

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

People are always misquoting me.

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

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

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

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.

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

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

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

I have always imposed my wishes on the cameraman. Moreover, I have always picked them at the outset of their careers and, to a certain extent, have formed them myself.

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.

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

We know that under the image revealed there is another which is truer to reality and under this image still another and yet again still another under this last one, right down to the true image of that reality, absolute, mysterious, which no one will ever see or perhaps right down to the decomposition of any image, of any reality.

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

I would like to make clear that I speak only of sensations. I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

Attribution

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