The way I relax, what I like doing most, is watching. That's why I like traveling, to have new things before my eyes - even a new face. I enjoy myself like that and can stay for hours, looking at things, people, scenery.
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 simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship that begins to exist between his body and the other things in the scene.
Michelangelo AntonioniNothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.
Michelangelo AntonioniI'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.
Michelangelo AntonioniThat love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on love that is only about the conquest of happiness, the effort to arrive at what we call love. It's the struggle that has always interested those who produce works of art - literature, cinema or poetry.
Michelangelo Antonioni