Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes

I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.

Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.

I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

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.

Women are a finer filter of reality. They can sniff things.

Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.

I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.

When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about.

One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government.

It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own.

I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain.

I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting.

I don't know whether I am ever bored. I never look at myself.

In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.