I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIFor 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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As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.
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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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The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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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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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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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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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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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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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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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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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.
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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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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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