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

Bernardo Bertolucci

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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Character Learning Privilege Reality Thinking
I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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People Political Reality
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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Apples Big Country Hollywood Nipple
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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Cinema Completely Homage Love Movement Value
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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Children Choices Kind Sadness
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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Instinct Sometimes Thinking
I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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Care Message Office
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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Changed Feminist Important Society Thing Women
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.
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Cameras Each Poem Reality Return Time
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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Autobiographical Future Important People Sleep Tomorrow
The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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Cinema Hollywood Only Past Trying Unique
You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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Build Day Life Live
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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Consequences Editing Loyal Shoot Writing
I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late ’50s, early ’60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism.
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Cinema Country Seduced Style Thinking Vague
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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Mademwatch Time Waiting Waste Work
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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Disappointed Distance Thinking

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

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