A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIPornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him.
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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’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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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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Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him.
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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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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 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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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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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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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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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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You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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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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