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 BERTOLUCCIAfter many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It’s not something I like but it’s the truth.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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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 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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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
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The life before ’68 was very different from the life after ’68. Before ’68, our days were full of authoritarian moments. There were authorities everywhere. In fact, the movement of ’68 was young people against their authorities, children against their parents. And that remained.
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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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New York has always embraced me.
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I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.
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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.
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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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There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
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I think cinema all over the world was influenced by it, which was Italy finding its freedom at the end of fascism, the end of the Nazi invasion. It was a kind of incredible energy. Then, late ’50s, early ’60s, the neo-realism lost its great energy and became comedy.
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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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I think that Hollywood should also be influenced by directors from Hong Kong. You see how Quentin Tarantino is really the example of how you can develop, and how you can go ahead if you accept the existence of different cinematic cultures.
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You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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