Michelangelo Antonioni: Likeness

Michelangelo Antonioni was Italian film director and screenwriter. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“You must be painter who takes a canvas and does what he likes with it.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

Encountering Directors interview (1969)
Context: You must be painter who takes a canvas and does what he likes with it. We are more like painters in past centuries who were ordered to paint frescoes to specific measurements. Among the people in the fresco may be a bishop, the prince's wife, etc. The fresco isn't bad simply because the painter used for models people from the court of the prince who ordered and paid for it.

“My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

On Zabriskie Point (1970) in Esquire (August 1970)
Context: My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

Time

“Sometimes I pick up a magazine and read a piece of film criticism — to the end only if I like it. I don't like those which are too free with praise because their reasons seem wrong and that annoys me. Critics who attack me do so for such contradictory reasons that they confuse me, and I am afraid that if I am influenced by one, I will sin according to the standards of the other.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

Reading

“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.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

Feeling

“Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

Sunday Times [London] (20 June 1971)

“The principle behind the cinema, like that behind all the arts, rests on a choice. It is, in Camus' words, "the revolt of the artist against the real."
If one holds to this principle, what difference can it make by what means reality is revealed? Whether the author of a film seizes on the real in a novel, in a newspaper story or in his own imagination, what counts is the way he isolates it, stylizes it, makes it his own.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

Cahiers du Cinema (1960)

Art , Way , Imagination , Reality

“I always want to tell stories. But they must be stories that evolve, like our own lives. Perhaps what I seek is a new kind of story.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

“I would like to make clear that I speak only of sensations. I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

Imagination , Future