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.
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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.Michelangelo Antonioni
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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In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
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When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.
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I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
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