Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes

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.

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.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

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.

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.