The most important thing of all, the thing that lasted, was the first feminist movement and the position of women in society. That completely changed and that was very, very important.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
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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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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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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 like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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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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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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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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There’s no more film; now everything’s digital. I welcome this. It’s fantastic for me to have a new chance.
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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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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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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The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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