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 BERTOLUCCIAs a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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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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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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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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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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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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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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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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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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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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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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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 movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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