I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. ‘The Dreamers’ was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.
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.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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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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You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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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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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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I think cinema all over the world was influenced by it, which was Italy finding its freedom at the end of fascism, the end of the Nazi invasion. It was a kind of incredible energy. Then, late ’50s, early ’60s, the neo-realism lost its great energy and became comedy.
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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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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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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Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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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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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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