4 Quotes & Sayings By Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni was a major Italian film director and screenwriter. He was born on 27 September 1910, in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. In 1940 he married Marisa Berenson, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist from England. Their daughter Livia Antonioni was born in 1944 Read more

In 1950 he moved to France to work for the Cinéarte film studio as a dialogue director, but after a few months returned to Italy. He first achieved fame with his adaptation of the novel The touched by an angel (1957), which won worldwide critical acclaim and is considered one of the best films ever made. Antonioni became an internationally recognized artist through this film and through his subsequent films such as Red Desert (1964), The Passenger (1975) and Eclipse (1979).

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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. Michelangelo Antonioni
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Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance. Michelangelo Antonioni
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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. Michelangelo Antonioni