Top 18 Quotes by Michelangelo Antonioni

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

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.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

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