Michelangelo Antonioni

"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."

"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."

"Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance."

"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."