Michelangelo Antonioni Quote

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.


Cahiers du Cinema (1960)


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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...