When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.
Michelangelo AntonioniAfter you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.
Michelangelo AntonioniI rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely.
Michelangelo Antonioni