Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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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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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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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 like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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I think that what I learned then, I didn’t know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to see somebody who was a writer, a great poet, and very smart-faced. Suddenly Pasolini becomes a director, so he has to invent cinema.
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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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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. ‘The Dreamers’ was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.
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There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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