The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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New York has always embraced me.
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Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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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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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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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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I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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