A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time, which was as exceptional as the reality around us. Our major interest focused on that and on how we could relate to it. Later, when the situation normalized and post-war life returned to what it had been in peacetime, it became important to see the intimate, interior consequences of all that had happened.
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'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.
Michelangelo AntonioniHollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
Michelangelo AntonioniI'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.
Michelangelo Antonioni