Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes

There were a couple times with close-ups where I tended to overact. I would use more of my face than I needed to. I learned how to be more subtle.

I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.

Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.

I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

I feel there’s no need to overstate.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

I'm always the "less is more" guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I'm still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.

The most important thing we do is not doing.

I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.

I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

If I could have done anything more, it would have been less

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

If I seem detached or distant, it's because I think this is a more exact reproduction of life, where you hide as much as you show. When I see a scene in which feelings get loudly exteriorized, I say to myself, 'Well, at least this never happens to me.' I very rarely go through this type of expression. Most of the time things are hidden or at least much more subdued.

--I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Peter had an arm around me. "Let it go, Kade," he was whispering very gently, though his arm was nearly crushing me. "Open your fists," he said, "and let go of the coals.

Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.