Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: September 29, 1912 - July 30, 2007

Topics

SpaceSayWantMeanSeeEmpty

I'm just super nosy, I love trying to understand what's going on.

Joanna Coles

LoveTryingUnderstandGoingJust

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

Andrew Sarris

PeopleInfluenceLearnYouNice

Don't be anything you're not. Be yourself. And people will either celebrate that or say, 'It's not for me.'

Alyssa Edwards

YourselfPeopleMeCelebrateYou

I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.

Tom Stoppard

ThinkDifficultWriterI Think

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

Mary Ellen Mark

PhotographJustInterestedMakes

Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.

Chris Pine

LifeThinkBlurQuestionsEasyYou

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

LifeEndureUsWouldAbleNone

I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.

Peter York

MenBeerNowAlwaysForeverAlmost

America has not traditionally been the cramped, frightened country of Trump's executive order that bans Syrian refugees.

Peter Bergen

AmericaCountryRefugeesOrderBeen

Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.

Paul Watson

ChangeYouPriceSometimesJailPay

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

Shane McAnally

LifeTimeCreativeHappyPeople

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

Sergey Brin

GodThinkSearchRememberPowerful

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