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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIWhat happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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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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There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
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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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The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay?
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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 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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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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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 think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
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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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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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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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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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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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