Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone wanted to reconstruct the story of my life, they can just see my movies and know what I have been through.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCIAfter 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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I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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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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Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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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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I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.
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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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New York has always embraced me.
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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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This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep cinematographically, as a poet, a painter, lives, eats, sleeps painting.
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