Michelangelo Antonioni: Character

Michelangelo Antonioni was Italian film director and screenwriter. Explore interesting quotes on character.
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“I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible.”

Encountering Directors interview (1969)
Context: 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.

“Is it important to show why a character is what he is? No. He is. That's all.”

Encountering Directors interview (1969)