Michelangelo Antonioni: Quotes about feelings

Michelangelo Antonioni was Italian film director and screenwriter. Explore interesting quotes on feeling.
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“I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

Cahiers du Cinema (1960)
Context: I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let me thoughts wander freely.

Feeling

“She isn't my wife, really. We just have some kids.
No. No kids. Sometimes, though, it feels as if we had kids.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

Thomas (David Hemmings) to Jane (Vanessa Redgrave) in Blow-Up (1966)
Context: She isn't my wife, really. We just have some kids.
No. No kids. Sometimes, though, it feels as if we had kids.
She isn't beautiful, she's just easy to live with.
No, she isn't. That's why I don't live with her.

Feeling

“One doesn't enter groups of people simply because one wants or needs to. One has an infinite number of opportunities that occur for no particular reason. Sometimes you feel a sudden unexpected pleasure at being where you find yourself.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

People , Pleasure , Feeling

“For me, from the moment when the first, still unformed, idea comes into my head until the projection of the rushes, the process of making a film constitutes a single piece of work. I mean that I cannot become interested in anything, day or night, which is not that film. Let no one imagine that this is a romantic pose — on the contrary. I become relatively more lucid, more attentive, and almost feel as if I were intelligent and more ready to understand.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

Cahiers du Cinema (1960)

Feeling , Imagination , Intelligence , Idea

“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

“I find that it is very useful to look over the location and to feel out the atmosphere while waiting for the actors. It may happen that the images before my eyes coincide with those I had in my mind, but this is not frequently the case. It more often happens that there is something insincere or artificial about the image one has thought of. Here again is another way of improvising.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

Cahiers du Cinema (1960)

Way , Feeling , Waiting