My 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 AntonioniWhen you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him.
Michelangelo AntonioniI've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.
Michelangelo AntonioniYou can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.
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