“You mustn't ask me to explain everything I do. I can't. That's that.”

—  Michelangelo Antonioni

Encountering Directors interview (1969)
Context: You mustn't ask me to explain everything I do. I can't. That's that. How can I say why at a certain moment I needed this. How can I explain why I needed a confusion of colors?

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Italian film director and screenwriter 1912–2007

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