A dolly move is a moral commitment.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIIf New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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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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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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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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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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I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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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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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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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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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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New York has always embraced me.
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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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The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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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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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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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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