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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.

Bernardo Bertolucci

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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Democracy Hollywood Trying
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.
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Autobiographical Future Important People Sleep Tomorrow
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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Character Learning Privilege Reality Thinking
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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Abandoned Feels Technology
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
What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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Cinema Director Dreamers Revolution
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
There was a sense of future that was the result of the mixture of politics, cinema, music, the first joints. And the movies were a very important part of that cocktail.
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Cinema Cocktail Important Mixture Music Result
I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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Ambiguous Ending Life Way
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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Increasingly People Politics Reality Youth
A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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Commitment Dolly Moral Moving
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
I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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People Political Reality
Commuting 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.
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Cobbles Country Easy Everywhere Pavement
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 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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