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.

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 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.

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

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