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Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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There’s no more film; now everything’s digital. I welcome this. It’s fantastic for me to have a new chance.
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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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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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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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Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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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 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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Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him.
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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The life before ’68 was very different from the life after ’68. Before ’68, our days were full of authoritarian moments. There were authorities everywhere. In fact, the movement of ’68 was young people against their authorities, children against their parents. And that remained.
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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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I 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.
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The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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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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