"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."

Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian Director

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"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."

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"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."

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"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."

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"Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer."

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"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."

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"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."

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

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"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."

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

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