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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCINew York has always embraced me.
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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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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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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 am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story I want to do, in a realistic, normal story, using 3D on the emotions in a kind of intimate story.
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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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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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The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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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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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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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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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’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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For example, Jewish directors coming from Germany or Austria and enriching Hollywood. In 15, 20 years, Hollywood became imperialistic. Cinema goes ahead when it is marriaged by other culture. Otherwise, it turns on itself.
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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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