New York has always embraced me.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIPornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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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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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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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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