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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.

Bernardo Bertolucci

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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Democracy Hollywood Trying
I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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Care Message Office
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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Bits Claustrophobia Country Immediately Something
What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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Cinema Director Dreamers Revolution
Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere… terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.
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Cobbles Country Easy Everywhere Pavement
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.
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Adult Children Hands Hearts Masturbating
I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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People Political Reality
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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Authoritarian Children Feminist Moments People
I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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Ambiguous Ending Life Way
You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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Soccer Thinking Women
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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Cameras Doing Ideas Love Movie Thinking
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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Better Jesus Life Million Names Self
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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Character Learning Privilege Reality Thinking
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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Consequences Editing Loyal Shoot Writing
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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Hollywood Phases Thinking
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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Cinematographical Dream Painter Sleep Thinking
A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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Commitment Dolly Moral Moving
I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.
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Cameras Each Poem Reality Return Time
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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Father Normal Writing Young
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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Cinema End Fascism Incredible Influence Kind
You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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Build Day Life Live
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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Abandoned Feels Technology
I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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Based Cameras Eye Imitate Two
There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
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Country Independent Interesting Person Playing
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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Love Politics Truth Years
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.
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Country Dialogue Italian More Need Needs Nothing
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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Children Choices Kind Sadness

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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