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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIA dolly move is a moral commitment.
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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 like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back… abandoned.
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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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I think that Hollywood should also be influenced by directors from Hong Kong. You see how Quentin Tarantino is really the example of how you can develop, and how you can go ahead if you accept the existence of different cinematic cultures.
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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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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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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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