"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
"Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes."
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Film Director, Screenwriter
Michelangelo Antonioni was an Italian filmmaker known for his exploration of alienation and modernity in films like 'L'Avventura'.
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"We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see."
"A film that can be described in words is not really a film."
"I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why."
"A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something."
"The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up."