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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.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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
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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Chance Digital Welcome
New York has always embraced me.
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Always Country Embraced
The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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Beginning Cinema Movies Reinvented
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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Country Political Shooting Thinking
I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.
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Censorship Important Kind Subject
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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Apples Big Country Hollywood Nipple
You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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Soccer Thinking Women
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
There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
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Country Independent Interesting Person Playing
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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Better Jesus Life Million Names Self
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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Bits Claustrophobia Country Immediately Something
A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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Commitment Dolly Moral Moving
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 don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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Care Message Office
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

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