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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII 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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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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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 like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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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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Young people now don’t care for politics. It isn’t present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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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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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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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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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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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 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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