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 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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I 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.
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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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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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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 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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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Young 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.
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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 problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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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 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 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 left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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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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I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.
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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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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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The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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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 accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.
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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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