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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

Bernardo Bertolucci

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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Beginning Cinema Movies Reinvented
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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Father Normal Writing Young
I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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People Political Reality
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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Ahead Cinema Enriching Example Hollywood Imperialisytic
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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Life Reconstruct Someone Special Stories Thinking
I haven’t made a movie for a while, but I’ve watched a lot. It’s my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.
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Mademwatch Time Waiting Waste Work
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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Cinema End Fascism Incredible Influence Kind
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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Children Choices Kind Sadness
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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Hollywood Phases Thinking
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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Cinematographical Dream Painter Sleep Thinking
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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Ahead Culture Develo Example Interesting Thinking
You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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Build Day Life Live
As 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.
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Consequences Editing Loyal Shoot Writing
New York has always embraced me.
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Always Country Embraced
Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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Late Message Sometimes Sync
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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Country Political Shooting Thinking

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