To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back… abandoned.
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.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say – in one place. It’s something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!
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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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Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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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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New York has always embraced me.
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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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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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There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
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