Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

- Michelangelo Antonioni

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.

- Michelangelo Antonioni

We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet ano…

- Michelangelo Antonioni

I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sur…

- Michelangelo Antonioni

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

- Michelangelo Antonioni

A woman's sex appeal is an inner matter. It stems from her mental make-up, basically. It's an attitude, not just a question of her physical features …

- Michelangelo Antonioni

I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.

- Michelangelo Antonioni

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

- Michelangelo Antonioni

The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written on the page is right or not. In the s…

- Michelangelo Antonioni