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.
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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I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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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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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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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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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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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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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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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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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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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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Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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This 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.
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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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