[b]Michelangelo Antonioni
If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.[/b]
Here? If the shoe fits, right?
A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.
Which tells us almost nothing at all.
It’s obvious that I must explain what I want from an actor, but I don’t want to discuss everything I ask him to do, because often my requests are completely instinctive and there are things I can’t explain. It’s like painting: You don’t know why you use pink instead of blue. You simply feel that’s how it should be - pink. Then the phone rings and you answer it. When you come back, you don’t want pink anymore and you use blue - without knowing why. You can’t help it; that’s just the way it is.
No, really, that is how it is.
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 - that arrogant quality in a woman’s femininity. Otherwise, all beautiful women would have sex appeal, which is not so.
Next up: A man’s sex appeal.
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.
My guess: Going back to an understanding of existence itself.
I can’t give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.
Not much that doesn’t cover.