"The natural world is arrayed against the artificial scene; conscience is deployed against convention. If you've never seen Blow-Up, see it now, if only to see what part of the world was like 40 years ago."

"I revisited Blow-Up in a shot-by-shot analysis. Freed from the hype and fashion, it emerges as a great film, if not the one we thought we were seeing at the time. This was at the 1998 Virginia Festival of American Film in Charlottesville, which had "Cool" as its theme. The festival began with the emergence of the Beat Generation and advanced through Cassavetes to Blow-Up — after which the virus of Cool leaped from its nurturing subculture into millions of willing new hosts, and has colored our society ever since, right down to and manifestly including South Park."

"Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up opened in America two months before I became a film critic, and colored my first years on the job with its lingering influence. It was the opening salvo of the emerging "film generation," … the highest-grossing art film to date, was picked as the best film of 1967 by the National Society of Film Critics, and got Oscar nominations for screenplay and direction. Today, you rarely hear it mentioned. Young audiences aren't interested any more in a movie about a "trendy" London photographer who may or may not have witnessed a murder, who lives a life of cynicism and ennui, and who ends up in a park at dawn, watching college kids play tennis with an imaginary ball. The twentysomethings who bought tickets for Blow-Up are now focused on ironic, self-referential slasher movies."

"This is a fascinating picture, which has something real to say about the matter of personal involvement and emotional commitment in a jazzed-up, media-hooked-in world so cluttered with synthetic stimulations that natural feelings are overwhelmed."

"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."

"Give me your money. Do it."

"You'll get your pictures. I promise. I always keep my word."

"You ever do any modeling? Fashion stuff, I mean. You've got it."

"What's so important about my bloody pictures?"

"Man has no business with the simplicity or complexity of things."

"Linda Moretti – Donna Rosa"

"Renato Scarpa – Telegrapher"

"Maria Grazia Cucinotta – Beatrice Russo"

"Massimo Troisi – Mario Ruoppolo"

"Philippe Noiret – Pablo Neruda"

"When he found the power to express what was in his heart, he found the love of a woman."

"An irresistible treat about love, letters, and laughter!"

"A shy postman didn't stand a chance with the island's most beautiful woman until the great poet of love gave him the courage to follow his dreams...and the words to win her heart."

"Dreams do come true."

"He had no way to win her heart. Until a great poet showed him the power of words."

"So what if we break our chains? What do we do then?"

"Your smile spreads like a butterfly."

"Your laugh is a sudden silvery wave."

"If you make this much of a fuss about one poem, you're never going to win that Nobel Prize."

"Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often."

"When you explain poetry, it becomes banal. Better than any explanation is the experience of feelings that poetry can reveal to a nature open enough to understand it."

"In the end, I've come to believe in something I call "The Physics of the Quest." A force in nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity. The rule of Quest Physics goes something like this: If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you."

"You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it’s like you have four legs, instead of two. That way you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God."

"Sometimes to lose balance for love is part of living a balanced life."

"I will teach you everything I know."

"I decided on my word: "attraversiamo" it means "let's cross over."."

"Dear friends and loved ones: My birthday's coming up soon. If I were home, I'd be planning a stupid, expensive birthday party and you'd all be buying me gifts and bottles of wine. A cheaper, more lovely way to celebrate would be to make a donation to help a healer named Wayan Nuriyasih buy a house in Indonesia. She's a single mother. ln Bali, after a divorce, a woman gets nothing, not even her children. To gain custody of her daughter, Tutti, Wayan had to sell everything, even her bath mat, to pay for a lawyer. For years, they've moved from place to place. Each time, Wayan loses clientele and Tutti has to change schools. This little group of people in Bali have become my family. And we must take care of our families, wherever we find them. Today l saw Tutti playing with a blue tile she'd found in the road near a hotel construction site. She told me: Maybe if we have a house someday, it can have a pretty blue floor like this. When I was in Italy, I learned a word — It's "tutti" with double T, which in ltalian means "everybody." So that's the lesson, isn't it? When you set out in the world to help yourself, sometimes you end up helping Tutti."

"It won't last forever. Nothing does."

"You're not like me, Nathan. I would have killed a man who took my little girl."

"Oliver Platt - Louis Sachs"

"Famke Janssen - Aggie Conrad"

"Lance Reddick - Arnie"

"Paul Schulze - Jake"

"Conrad Goode - Max"

"Victor Argo - Sydney Simon"

"Shawn Doyle - Russel Maddox"

"Jennifer Esposito - Sandra Cassidy"

"Guy Torry - Dolen"