42 Quotes by Michelangelo Antonioni

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

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.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

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.

But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

I can never understand how we have been able to follow these worn-out tracks, which have been laid down by panic in the face of nature.