Another reason for switching to color is world television. In a few years, it will all be in color, and you can't compete against that with black-and-white films.
Michelangelo AntonioniNeorealism taught us to follow the characters with the camera, allowing each shot its own real interior time. Well, I became tired of all this; I could no longer stand real time. In order to function, a shot must show only what is useful.
Michelangelo AntonioniI always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.
Michelangelo AntonioniIngmar Bergman is a long way from me, but I admire him. He, too, concentrates a great deal on individuals; and although the individual is what interests him most, we are very far apart. His individuals are very different from mine; his problems are different from mine - but he's a great director. So is Fellini, for that matter.
Michelangelo AntonioniMy films have always had an element of immediate autobiography, in that I shoot any particular scene according to the mood I'm in that day, according to the little daily experiences I've had and am having - but I don't tell what has happened to me. I would like to do something more strictly autobiographical, but perhaps I never will, because it isn't interesting enough.
Michelangelo Antonioni