Michelangelo Antonioni

I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... read more

I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.

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 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.

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

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

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.