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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

I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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People Political Reality
What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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Cinema Director Dreamers Revolution
I 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.
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Ahead Culture Develo Example Interesting Thinking
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
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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Children Choices Kind Sadness
I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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Care Message Office
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 Dream Painter Sleep Thinking
A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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Commitment Dolly Moral Moving
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
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
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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Better Jesus Life Million Names Self
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 Thinking
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
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
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 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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Authoritarian Children Feminist Moments People

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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