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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIIf New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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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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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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New York has always embraced me.
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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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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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Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone wanted to reconstruct the story of my life, they can just see my movies and know what I have been through.
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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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There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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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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You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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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 left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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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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