A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIThe 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.
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him.
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New York has always embraced me.
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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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This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep cinematographically, as a poet, a painter, lives, eats, sleeps painting.
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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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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.
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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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There’s no more film; now everything’s digital. I welcome this. It’s fantastic for me to have a new chance.
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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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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 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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To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back… abandoned.
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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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