black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You live day by day. You can’t build your life.

Bernardo Bertolucci

To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back… abandoned.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Abandoned Feels Technology
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Cinema End Fascism Incredible Influence Kind
The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Cinema Hollywood Only Past Trying Unique
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Cinematographical Dream Painter Sleep Thinking
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Apples Big Country Hollywood Nipple
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Father Normal Writing Young
There’s no more film; now everything’s digital. I welcome this. It’s fantastic for me to have a new chance.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Chance Digital Welcome
There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Country Independent Interesting Person Playing
Young 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 BERTOLUCCI

Increasingly People Politics Reality Youth
I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Care Message Office
Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Children Choices Kind Sadness
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Ahead Culture Develo Example Interesting Thinking
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Cameras Each Poem Reality Return Time
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Character Learning Privilege Reality Thinking
New York has always embraced me.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Always Country Embraced
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Authoritarian Children Feminist Moments People

You live day by day. You can’t build your life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You live day by day. You can’t build your life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes