Michelangelo Antonioni

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

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

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is read more

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 their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves read more

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

I can never understand how we have been able to follow these worn-out tracks, which have been laid down by read more

I can never understand how we have been able to follow these worn-out tracks, which have been laid down by panic in the face of nature.