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.
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.
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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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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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After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It’s not something I like but it’s the truth.
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I think that what I learned then, I didn’t know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to see somebody who was a writer, a great poet, and very smart-faced. Suddenly Pasolini becomes a director, so he has to invent cinema.
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I don’t see my movies. I think it’s healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I’m afraid to be disappointed.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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New York has always embraced me.
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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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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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The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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