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"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."
"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."
"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."
"There are two types of egoism: one is living and other one is lifeless. As long as the living egoism is there, one can never attain the awareness of the Self (Atma)."
"I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living."
"When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure."
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."
"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."
"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."
"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."
"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 began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules."
"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."
"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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