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 BERTOLUCCIIf New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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New York has always embraced me.
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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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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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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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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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There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
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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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I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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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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The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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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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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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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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I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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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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