Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.
Michelangelo AntonioniAll I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.
Michelangelo AntonioniScientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
Michelangelo AntonioniI never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and yet another to Freud; so it is not possible to give a single definition, one that will exhaust the subject. It is a question bordering on philosophy, and I'm not a philosopher nor a sociologist. My business is to tell stories, to narrate with images - nothing else. If I do make films about alienation - to use that word that is so ambiguous - they are about characters, not about me.
Michelangelo Antonioni