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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII 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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIYoung people now don’t care for politics. It isn’t present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIThis 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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCINew York has always embraced me.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII 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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIYou live day by day. You can’t build your life.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIThere you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIFor 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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCISometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIAs 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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII 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 BERTOLUCCIWhat 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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIThe problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII 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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIA 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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