"The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying."

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Source : "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#Lying Quotes #Cinema Quotes #Possibility Quotes

“Don't worry, even if you fall over! It's all right. You can just pick yourself up again! When you fall over, make the most of the chance to look up and see the sky. You will see the blue sky spreading endlessly above you and smiling down. Aya, you are alive!”
“Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.”

Source : 1964 'Dream Song No.63'.
“It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.”
“Little Red was a tender young morsel, and the wolf knew she would be even tastier than the old woman.”
“I'll save that for Mrs. Battier.”
“I made the first 'Blumen' picture after looking at Robert Mapplethorpe's Pictures book. I was struck by how much freedom Mapplethorpe was able to extract from his model's restraint-that in tying up and cropping his models, he appears to be able to work with people as forms. I never thought about my flowers as related to his (which I saw as annoyingly erotic); I thought of them in relationship to bondage. I wanted to make the flowers more aggressive and ironic and less docile and sensual.”
“I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.”
“He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.”

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