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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII 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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The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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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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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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This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep cinematographically, as a poet, a painter, lives, eats, sleeps painting.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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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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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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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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