I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIThere 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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I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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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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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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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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Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCISometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIA monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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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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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.
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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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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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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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