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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.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Father Normal Writing Young
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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Authoritarian Children Feminist Moments People
After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It’s not something I like but it’s the truth.
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Love Politics Truth Years
Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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Late Message Sometimes Sync
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Character Learning Privilege Reality Thinking
For example, Jewish directors coming from Germany or Austria and enriching Hollywood. In 15, 20 years, Hollywood became imperialistic. Cinema goes ahead when it is marriaged by other culture. Otherwise, it turns on itself.
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Ahead Cinema Enriching Example Hollywood Imperialisytic
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 Future Important People Sleep Tomorrow
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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Children Choices Kind Sadness
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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Life Reconstruct Someone Special Stories Thinking
New York has always embraced me.
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Always Country Embraced
I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.
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Censorship Important Kind Subject
I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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Based Cameras Eye Imitate Two
I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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Ambiguous Ending Life Way
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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Instinct Sometimes Thinking
A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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Commitment Dolly Moral Moving
The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Cinema Hollywood Only Past Trying Unique

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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