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.
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.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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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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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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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 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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There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
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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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I think that Hollywood should also be influenced by directors from Hong Kong. You see how Quentin Tarantino is really the example of how you can develop, and how you can go ahead if you accept the existence of different cinematic cultures.
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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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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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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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English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more – like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.
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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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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 you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.
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I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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