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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.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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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Consequences Editing Loyal Shoot Writing
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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Bits Claustrophobia Country Immediately Something
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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Hollywood Phases Thinking
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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Love Politics Truth Years
I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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Ambiguous Ending Life Way
Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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Late Message Sometimes Sync
The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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Cinema Hollywood Only Past Trying Unique
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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Country Dialogue Italian More Need Needs Nothing
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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Apples Big Country Hollywood Nipple
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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Increasingly People Politics Reality Youth
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 Ideas Love Movie Thinking
I 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.
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Cinema Completely Homage Love Movement Value
I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.
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Censorship Important Kind Subject
A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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Commitment Dolly Moral Moving
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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Adult Children Hands Hearts Masturbating
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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Instinct Sometimes Thinking

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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