I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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Apples Big Nipple
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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Cinema Seduced
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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Cinema Completely Homage
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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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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Hearts Masturbating
You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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Soccer
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 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 Thing
I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say – in one place. It’s something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!
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Bits Claustrophobia Immediately Something
Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
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Choices Sadness
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 Mixture
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
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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Chance Digital
I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.

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I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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Political
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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Sometimes
The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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Cinema Movies Reinvented
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 Two

I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

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