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New York has always embraced me.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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Instinct Sometimes Thinking
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.
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Life Reconstruct Someone Special Stories Thinking
I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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Based Cameras Eye Imitate Two
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.
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Disappointed Distance Thinking
I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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Ambiguous Ending Life Way
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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Country Dialogue Italian More Need Needs Nothing
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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Changed Feminist Important Society Thing Women
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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Hollywood Phases Thinking
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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Cameras Doing Ideas Love Movie Thinking
You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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Build Day Life Live
I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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People Political Reality
I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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Care Message Office
What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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Cinema Director Dreamers Revolution
After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It’s not something I like but it’s the truth.
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Love Politics Truth Years
There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
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Country Independent Interesting Person Playing
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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Cinematographical Dream Painter Sleep Thinking

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