If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCITo explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back… abandoned.
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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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I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.
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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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For example, Jewish directors coming from Germany or Austria and enriching Hollywood. In 15, 20 years, Hollywood became imperialistic. Cinema goes ahead when it is marriaged by other culture. Otherwise, it turns on itself.
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As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.
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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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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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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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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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I haven’t made a movie for a while, but I’ve watched a lot. It’s my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.
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New York has always embraced me.
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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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The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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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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