"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

Actor, Actors, Film, Space

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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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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."

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"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."

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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

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"We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that."

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

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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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"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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"Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance."

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

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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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"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."

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

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