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I Can't Give Any Absolute Definition Of What Love Is, Or Even Whether It Ought To Exist.

I Dislike Judging Myself, But I Will Say I Would Be Wealthy Today If I Had Accepted All The Films That Have Been Offered To Me With Large Sums Of Money. But I've Always Refused, In Order To Do What I Felt Like Doing.

A Film That Can Be Described In Words Is Not Really A Film.

A Particular Type Of Film Emerged From World War Two, With The Italian Neorealist School. It Was Perfectly Right For Its Time, Which Was As Exceptional As The Reality Around Us. Our Major Interest Focused On That And On How We Could Relate To It. Later, When The Situation Normalized And Post-war Life Returned To What It Had Been In Peacetime, It Became Important To See The Intimate, Interior Consequences Of All That Had Happened.

The Photographer In Blow-up, Who Is Not A Philosopher, Wants To See Things Closer Up. But It So Happens That, By Enlarging Too Far, The Object Itself Decomposes And Disappears. Hence There's A Moment In Which We Grasp Reality, But Then The Moment Passes. This Was In Part The Meaning Of Blow-up.