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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIA monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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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.
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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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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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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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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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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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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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The most important thing of all, the thing that lasted, was the first feminist movement and the position of women in society. That completely changed and that was very, very important.
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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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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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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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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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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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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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