black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Cinema Country Seduced Style Thinking Vague
A dolly move is a moral commitment.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Commitment Dolly Moral Moving
Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Late Message Sometimes Sync
I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

People Political Reality
There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Country Independent Interesting Person Playing
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Apples Big Country Hollywood Nipple
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Country Dialogue Italian More Need Needs Nothing
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Disappointed Distance Thinking
The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Beginning Cinema Movies Reinvented
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Autobiographical Future Important People Sleep Tomorrow
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Adult Children Hands Hearts Masturbating
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.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Changed Feminist Important Society Thing Women
I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Ambiguous Ending Life Way
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Democracy Hollywood Trying
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!
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Bits Claustrophobia Country Immediately Something
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Instinct Sometimes Thinking

I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes