I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. ‘The Dreamers’ was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII think that Hollywood should also be influenced by directors from Hong Kong. You see how Quentin Tarantino is really the example of how you can develop, and how you can go ahead if you accept the existence of different cinematic cultures.
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I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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I think that Hollywood should also be influenced by directors from Hong Kong. You see how Quentin Tarantino is really the example of how you can develop, and how you can go ahead if you accept the existence of different cinematic cultures.
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Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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New York has always embraced me.
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There was a sense of future that was the result of the mixture of politics, cinema, music, the first joints. And the movies were a very important part of that cocktail.
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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
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The life before ’68 was very different from the life after ’68. Before ’68, our days were full of authoritarian moments. There were authorities everywhere. In fact, the movement of ’68 was young people against their authorities, children against their parents. And that remained.
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I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.
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Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
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I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
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I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.
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