I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late ’50s, early ’60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII 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.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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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.
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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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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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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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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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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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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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The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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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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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.
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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone wanted to reconstruct the story of my life, they can just see my movies and know what I have been through.
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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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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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The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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