I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am t… - Michelangelo Antonioni

You must be painter who takes a canvas and does what he likes with it. We are more like painters in past centuries who were ordered to paint frescoes to specific measurements. Among the people in the fresco may be a bishop, the prince's wife, etc. The fresco isn't bad simply because the painter used for models people from the court of the prince who ordered and paid for it.

I am not a theoretician of the cinema. If you ask me what directing is, the first answer that comes into my head is: I don't know.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.