You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII 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.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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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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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 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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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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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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New York has always embraced me.
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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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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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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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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 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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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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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 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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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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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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I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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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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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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This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep cinematographically, as a poet, a painter, lives, eats, sleeps painting.
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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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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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