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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

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Cinema Mixture

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
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
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 Seduced
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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Abandoned Feels
Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

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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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Message Sometimes Sync
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 Waiting
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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Political Shooting
A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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Dolly Moving
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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Italian More Needs Nothing
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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Cinema Director
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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Apples Big Nipple
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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Ahead Cinema Enriching Imperialisytic
I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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Message
New York has always embraced me.
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Embraced
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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Hearts Masturbating