Quotes / Michelangelo Antonioni

• Cool Old Guy: In 1966 Antonioni was 53, not an old man by the modern standards standard however he was apparently too aged for the Swinging London. Nebvertheless, as David Hemmings wrote:

  Antonioni, at 54, could operate around the clock and still sustain a momentum he needed to get him through the production. It seemed that, however late he'd gone to bed the night before, he appeared on the set each morning as bright-eyed as a bantam cock, and just as well-groomed...For a man of his age, he was impressively eager for new experiences. I think perhaps he was a little in thrall to the idea of 'swinging London' and even once shooting had started, he spent a great deal of time hanging around in search of oscillation, often with photographers and models. Perhaps he considered it all research, but in his quest he raved ceaselessly, night after night in clubs and discotheques, in the company of the new goddesses of the fashion world, with his fierce eyes shining intensely in the dark, grave face as he drank grappa till his ears bubbled and tried to extract every last ounce from the swinging city - a man from Rome, a modern Bellini, determined to leave his mark in the middle of the liberated new world.