After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It’s not something I like but it’s the truth.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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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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A 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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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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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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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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I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.
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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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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere… terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.
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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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Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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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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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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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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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 movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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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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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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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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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 think that what I learned then, I didn’t know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to see somebody who was a writer, a great poet, and very smart-faced. Suddenly Pasolini becomes a director, so he has to invent cinema.
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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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The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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