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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.

Bernardo Bertolucci

You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Soccer Thinking Women
I haven’t made a movie for a while, but I’ve watched a lot. It’s my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Mademwatch Time Waiting Waste Work
I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Cameras Each Poem Reality Return Time
The most important thing of all, the thing that lasted, was the first feminist movement and the position of women in society. That completely changed and that was very, very important.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Changed Feminist Important Society Thing Women
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Apples Big Country Hollywood Nipple
There’s no more film; now everything’s digital. I welcome this. It’s fantastic for me to have a new chance.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Chance Digital Welcome
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.
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Cinema Completely Homage Love Movement Value
I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

People Political Reality
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Father Normal Writing Young
I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Care Message Office
If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Country Political Shooting Thinking
I don’t see my movies. I think it’s healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I’m afraid to be disappointed.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Disappointed Distance Thinking
The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Beginning Cinema Movies Reinvented
To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back… abandoned.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Abandoned Feels Technology
I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Ambiguous Ending Life Way
Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone wanted to reconstruct the story of my life, they can just see my movies and know what I have been through.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Life Reconstruct Someone Special Stories Thinking

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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