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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More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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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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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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I don’t see my movies. I think it’s healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I’m afraid to be disappointed.
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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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The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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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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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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I think that what I learned then, I didn’t know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to see somebody who was a writer, a great poet, and very smart-faced. Suddenly Pasolini becomes a director, so he has to invent cinema.
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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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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 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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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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New York has always embraced me.
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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’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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