A dolly move is a moral commitment.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIHaving no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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 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 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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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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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.
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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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You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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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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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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Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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