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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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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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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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Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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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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There was a sense of future that was the result of the mixture of politics, cinema, music, the first joints. And the movies were a very important part of that cocktail.
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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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As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.
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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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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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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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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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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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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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This 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.
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You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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I don’t see my movies. I think it’s healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I’m afraid to be disappointed.
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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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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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I haven’t made a movie for a while, but I’ve watched a lot. It’s my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.
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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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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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New York has always embraced me.
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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 like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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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 am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.
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