I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII 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.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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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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This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep cinematographically, as a poet, a painter, lives, eats, sleeps painting.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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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 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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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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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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