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 BERTOLUCCII was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.
More Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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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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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 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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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’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.
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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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A dolly move is a moral commitment.
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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.
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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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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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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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You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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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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Young people now don’t care for politics. It isn’t present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.
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