When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.
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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.Michelangelo Antonioni
I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.
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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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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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A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
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