After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.
Michelangelo AntonioniSometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.
Michelangelo AntonioniWhen I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about.
Michelangelo AntonioniI dislike judging myself, but I will say I would be wealthy today if I had accepted all the films that have been offered to me with large sums of money. But I've always refused, in order to do what I felt like doing.
Michelangelo Antonioni