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A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I’ve been called by a million names all my life. I don’t want a name. I’m better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.

Bernardo Bertolucci

I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Hollywood Phases Thinking
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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Bits Claustrophobia Country Immediately Something
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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Cobbles Country Easy Everywhere Pavement
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Adult Children Hands Hearts Masturbating
What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Cinema Director Dreamers Revolution
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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Apples Big Country Hollywood Nipple
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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Mademwatch Time Waiting Waste Work
Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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Late Message Sometimes Sync
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Instinct Sometimes Thinking
The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Beginning Cinema Movies Reinvented
If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Country Political Shooting Thinking
A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I’ve been called by a million names all my life. I don’t want a name. I’m better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Better Jesus Life Million Names Self
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Disappointed Distance Thinking
Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Children Choices Kind Sadness
I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Ambiguous Ending Life Way
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Father Normal Writing Young

A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I’ve been called by a million names all my life. I don’t want a name. I’m better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.

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