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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.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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Cinema Completely Homage

Bagwalas

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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Trying
There’s no more film; now everything’s digital. I welcome this. It’s fantastic for me to have a new chance.

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There’s no more film; now everything’s digital. I welcome this. It’s fantastic for me to have a new chance.
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Chance Digital
I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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Message
New York has always embraced me.
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Embraced
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 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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Disappointed Distance
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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Cameras Each Return
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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Political Shooting
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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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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Choices Sadness
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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Italian More Needs Nothing
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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Hearts Masturbating
What I was talking about was, of course, very autobiographical – ’68 was the moment when all the young people were incredibly excited, because when we were going to sleep, we knew we would wake up not tomorrow, but in the future.
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Autobiographical
You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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Day
Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

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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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Message Sometimes Sync
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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Cobbles Easy Everywhere Pavement
The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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Cinema Movies Reinvented

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