You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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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The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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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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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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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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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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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’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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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 accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.
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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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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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Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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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 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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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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