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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII 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.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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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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The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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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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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 think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
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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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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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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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