All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
- Michelangelo Antonioni Quote

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
- Michelangelo Antonioni Quote

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
- Michelangelo Antonioni Quote

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 Quote

I mean simply to say that 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.
- Michelangelo Antonioni Quote

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.
- Michelangelo Antonioni Quote

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
- Michelangelo Antonioni Quote

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.
- Michelangelo Antonioni Quote

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
- Michelangelo Antonioni Quote

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.
- Michelangelo Antonioni Quote

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.
- Michelangelo Antonioni Quote