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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII 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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII 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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIHaving no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIWhat 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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIThere you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIA dolly move is a moral commitment.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCITo explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back… abandoned.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIThis 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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCICommuting 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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII 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 BERTOLUCCII left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIIf you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII 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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