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Michelangelo Antonioni

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

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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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"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
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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 man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them."
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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 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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"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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"Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing."
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