You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIThere 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 left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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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 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 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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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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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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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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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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English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more – like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.
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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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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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For example, Jewish directors coming from Germany or Austria and enriching Hollywood. In 15, 20 years, Hollywood became imperialistic. Cinema goes ahead when it is marriaged by other culture. Otherwise, it turns on itself.
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