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 BERTOLUCCICommuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere… terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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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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Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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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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You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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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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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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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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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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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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I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.
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Young people now don’t care for politics. It isn’t present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.
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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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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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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 problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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