I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. ‘The Dreamers’ was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCII am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.
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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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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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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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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.
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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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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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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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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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New York has always embraced me.
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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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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