I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIThis 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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I think cinema all over the world was influenced by it, which was Italy finding its freedom at the end of fascism, the end of the Nazi invasion. It was a kind of incredible energy. Then, late ’50s, early ’60s, the neo-realism lost its great energy and became comedy.
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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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I think that Hollywood should also be influenced by directors from Hong Kong. You see how Quentin Tarantino is really the example of how you can develop, and how you can go ahead if you accept the existence of different cinematic cultures.
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The life before ’68 was very different from the life after ’68. Before ’68, our days were full of authoritarian moments. There were authorities everywhere. In fact, the movement of ’68 was young people against their authorities, children against their parents. And that remained.
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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 monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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New York has always embraced me.
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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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The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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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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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 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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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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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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