I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIYou live day by day. You can’t build your life.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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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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I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say – in one place. It’s something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!
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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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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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Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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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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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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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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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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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 like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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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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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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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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I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.
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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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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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To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back… abandoned.
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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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New York has always embraced me.
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There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
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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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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 am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story I want to do, in a realistic, normal story, using 3D on the emotions in a kind of intimate story.
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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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