Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIYou know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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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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The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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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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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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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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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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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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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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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 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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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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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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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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