The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII 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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English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more – like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.
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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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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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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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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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You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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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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The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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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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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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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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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 haven’t made a movie for a while, but I’ve watched a lot. It’s my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.
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Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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