I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story I want to do, in a realistic, normal story, using 3D on the emotions in a kind of intimate story.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story I want to do, in a realistic, normal story, using 3D on the emotions in a kind of intimate story.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII 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!
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIAfter many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It’s not something I like but it’s the truth.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIIf New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIHaving no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIYou live day by day. You can’t build your life.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIThere’s no more film; now everything’s digital. I welcome this. It’s fantastic for me to have a new chance.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIIf you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIYoung 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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII think that Hollywood should also be influenced by directors from Hong Kong. You see how Quentin Tarantino is really the example of how you can develop, and how you can go ahead if you accept the existence of different cinematic cultures.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCISometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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