Young people now don’t care for politics. It isn’t present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIWhat happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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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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The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It’s not something I like but it’s the truth.
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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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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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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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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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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 don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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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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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 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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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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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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