“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)

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Italian film director and screenwriter 1912–2007

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