A dolly move is a moral commitment.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCITo explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back… abandoned.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere… terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.
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I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.
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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.
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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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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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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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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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I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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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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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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Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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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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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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I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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