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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.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Young people now don’t care for politics. It isn’t present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Increasingly People Politics Reality Youth
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
New York has always embraced me.
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Always Country Embraced
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
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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Cinema Cocktail Important Mixture Music Result
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 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 don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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Care Message Office
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
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
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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Instinct Sometimes Thinking
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 am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.
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Censorship Important Kind Subject
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
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
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

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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