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

— Michelangelo Antonioni Encountering Directors interview (1969)

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More quotes by Michelangelo Antonioni

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

On Zabriskie Point (1970)

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

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.

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