A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIYou know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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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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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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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
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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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You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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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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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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Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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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 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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The life before ’68 was very different from the life after ’68. Before ’68, our days were full of authoritarian moments. There were authorities everywhere. In fact, the movement of ’68 was young people against their authorities, children against their parents. And that remained.
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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 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 like to be in a huis clos, as the French say – in one place. It’s something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!
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