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A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I’ve been called by a million names all my life. I don’t want a name. I’m better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more – like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.
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Italian More Needs Nothing
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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Trying
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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Apples Big Nipple
A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I’ve been called by a million names all my life. I don’t want a name. I’m better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.
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Jesus Million Names Self
New York has always embraced me.
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Embraced
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.
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Cameras Each Return
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Cinema Director
If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.
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Political Shooting
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Cinema End Fascism Incredible
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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Ahead Culture Develo
I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late ’50s, early ’60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism.
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Cinema Seduced
I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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Ambiguous Way
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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Sometimes
As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.
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Editing
What I was talking about was, of course, very autobiographical – ’68 was the moment when all the young people were incredibly excited, because when we were going to sleep, we knew we would wake up not tomorrow, but in the future.
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Autobiographical
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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Choices Sadness