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I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late ’50s, early ’60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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Trying
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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Sometimes
You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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Soccer
The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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Cinema Movies Reinvented
I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.

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I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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Political
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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Apples Big Nipple
I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late ’50s, early ’60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism.
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Cinema Seduced
What I was talking about was, of course, very autobiographical – ’68 was the moment when all the young people were incredibly excited, because when we were going to sleep, we knew we would wake up not tomorrow, but in the future.
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Autobiographical
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
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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Italian More Needs Nothing
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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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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Reconstruct Someone Stories
You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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Day
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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Hearts Masturbating
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Independent Playing
New York has always embraced me.
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Embraced

I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late ’50s, early ’60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism.

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