Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes

Michelangelo Antonioni — Italian Director born on September 29, 1912, died on June 30, 2007

Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer. Best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents" —L'Avventura , La Notte , and L'Eclisse —Antonioni "redefined the concept of narrative cinema" and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large. He produced "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" and rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story. His films defined a "cinema of possibilities"... (wikipedia)

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

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

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

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.