You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of 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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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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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I’ve been called by a million names all my life. I don’t want a name. I’m better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.
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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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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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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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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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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 think cinema all over the world was influenced by it, which was Italy finding its freedom at the end of fascism, the end of the Nazi invasion. It was a kind of incredible energy. Then, late ’50s, early ’60s, the neo-realism lost its great energy and became comedy.
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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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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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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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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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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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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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