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.
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 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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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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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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Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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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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The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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You live day by day. You can’t build your life.
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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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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution.
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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 don’t see my movies. I think it’s healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I’m afraid to be disappointed.
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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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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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New York has always embraced me.
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