For example, Jewish directors coming from Germany or Austria and enriching Hollywood. In 15, 20 years, Hollywood became imperialistic. Cinema goes ahead when it is marriaged by other culture. Otherwise, it turns on itself.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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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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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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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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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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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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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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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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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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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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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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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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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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New York has always embraced me.
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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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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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