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Is it important to show why a character is what he is? No. He is. That's all.
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You mustn't ask me to explain everything I do. I can't. That's that. How can I say why at a certain moment I needed this. How can I explain why I needed a confusion of colors?
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The principle behind the cinema, like that behind all the arts, rests on a choice. It is, in Camus' words, "the revolt of the artist against the real."
If one holds to this principle, what difference can it make by what means reality is revealed? Whether the author of a film seizes on the real in a novel, in a newspaper story or in his own imagination, what counts is the way he isolates it, stylizes it, makes it his own.
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One doesn't enter groups of people simply because one wants or needs to. One has an infinite number of opportunities that occur for no particular reason. Sometimes you feel a sudden unexpected pleasure at being where you find yourself.
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Don't regard my characters as symbols of a determined society. See them as something that sparks a reaction within you so that they become a personal experience. The critic is a spectator and an artist insofar as he transforms the work into a personal thing of his own.
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Born:
September 29, 1912
Died:
July 30, 2007
(aged 94)
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Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer.
Known for:
Blowup (1966)
L'Avventura (1960)
L'Eclisse (1962)
The Night (1961)
Red Desert (1964)
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