Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIA dolly move is a moral commitment.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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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 you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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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.
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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 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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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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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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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 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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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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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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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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The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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