Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

Good films that get made are so few and far between. I want to write and direct more, but only so I can keep a fresh perspective.

I always want to try to bring something fresh to every book. It's getting harder instead of easier. I feel like I work harder with each book. But I don't want it to show on the pages, that's for sure.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

I am very interested in behind the scenes, and I am very creative.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller and I know if something worked and should have been in there for the benefit of the story and the benefit of the character.

Originality will be rewarded in any line.

I would say that when you go to the very, very top, it's an ability to come up with new ideas, with something new, to make the difference. Every world champion, every player who was traversing this universe, managed to bring something new to the game. This ability to always find some unconventional ways. That makes the final difference.