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You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?

Bernardo Bertolucci

You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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Build Day Life Live
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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Abandoned Feels Technology
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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Apples Big Country Hollywood Nipple
English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more – like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.
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Country Dialogue Italian More Need Needs Nothing
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
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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Authoritarian Children Feminist Moments People
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
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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Adult Children Hands Hearts Masturbating
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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Democracy Hollywood Trying
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
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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Chance Digital Welcome
There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
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Country Independent Interesting Person Playing
You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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Soccer Thinking Women
I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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People Political Reality
I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. ‘The Dreamers’ was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.
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Cinema Completely Homage Love Movement Value
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
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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Bits Claustrophobia Country Immediately Something
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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Cinema Country Seduced Style Thinking Vague
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 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
The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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Cinema Hollywood Only Past Trying Unique
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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Better Jesus Life Million Names Self
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
I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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Care Message Office
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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Cameras Each Poem Reality Return Time
A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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Commitment Dolly Moral Moving
What I was talking about was, of course, very autobiographical – ’68 was the moment when all the young people were incredibly excited, because when we were going to sleep, we knew we would wake up not tomorrow, but in the future.
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Autobiographical Future Important People Sleep Tomorrow

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