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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIIf you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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New York has always embraced me.
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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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You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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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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I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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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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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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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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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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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 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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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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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.
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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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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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