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"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."
"But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed."
"I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show."
"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."
"The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained."
"Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor."
Explore more quotes by Michelangelo Antonioni
"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 loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."
"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."
"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."
"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."
"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."
"Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer."
"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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