I Never Think In Terms Of Alienation; It's The Others Who Do. Alienation Means One Thing To Hegel, Another To Marx And Yet Another To Freud; So It Is Not Possible To Give A Single Definition, One That Will Exhaust The Subject. It Is A Question Bordering On Philosophy, And I'm Not A Philosopher Nor A Sociologist. My Business Is To Tell Stories, To Narrate With Images - Nothing Else. If I Do Make Films About Alienation - To Use That Word That Is So Ambiguous - They Are About Characters, Not About Me.

-Michelangelo Antonioni

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I Never Think In Terms Of Alienation;

Michelangelo Antonioni

I Never Think In Terms Of Alienation; It's The Others Who Do. Alienation Means One Thing To Hegel, Another To Marx And Yet Another To Freud; So It Is Not Possible To Give A Single Definition, One That Will Exhaust The Subject. It Is A Question Bordering On Philosophy, And I'm Not A Philosopher Nor A Sociologist. My Business Is To Tell Stories, To Narrate With Images - Nothing Else. If I Do Make Films About Alienation - To Use That Word That Is So Ambiguous - They Are About Characters, Not About Me.

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Before Each New Setup, I Chase Everyone Off The Set In Order To Be Alone And Look Through The Camera. In That Moment, The Film Seems Quite Easy. But Then The Others Come In And Everything Becomes Difficult.

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