There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIIf New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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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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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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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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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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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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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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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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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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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 don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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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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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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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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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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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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