To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back… abandoned.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCITo explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back… abandoned.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIThis is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep cinematographically, as a poet, a painter, lives, eats, sleeps painting.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIHaving no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII 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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIWhat 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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII don’t see my movies. I think it’s healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I’m afraid to be disappointed.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIA monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCISometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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 BERTOLUCCINew York has always embraced me.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIThere you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIEvery 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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIYou know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIThe problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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