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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Better Jesus Life Million Names Self
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
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’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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People Political Reality
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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Changed Feminist Important Society Thing Women
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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Life Reconstruct Someone Special Stories Thinking
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
I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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Care Message Office
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Cinema Completely Homage Love Movement Value
New York has always embraced me.
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Always Country Embraced
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Authoritarian Children Feminist Moments People
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Ahead Cinema Enriching Example Hollywood Imperialisytic
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
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.
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Father Normal Writing Young
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
I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Ambiguous Ending Life Way

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