I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

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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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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Chance Digital

As 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.

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Editing

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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Ahead Cinema Enriching Imperialisytic

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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Choices Sadness

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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Cinema Mixture

I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

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Message

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.

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Cameras Doing

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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Disappointed Distance

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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Political Shooting

I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.

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Based Cameras Eye Two

Bernardo Bertolucci

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Independent Playing

What 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.

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Autobiographical

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

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Ambiguous Way

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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Cinematographical Painter