Bernardo Bertolucci quotes
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“Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.”
-- Bernardo BertolucciSource : "Bertolucci on Bertolucci". Interview with Rebecca Stokes, www.moma.org. January 3, 2011.
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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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“I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.”
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“I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.”
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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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“I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.”
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“Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.”
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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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“If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.”
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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 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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“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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“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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“You live day by day. You can't build your life.”
-- Bernardo BertolucciSource : "Legendary Oscar-Winner Bernardo Bertolucci’s Career Celebrated at MoMA". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2011.
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“I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great in a kind of realistic normal story without throwing objects to the camera, but using the 3D on the emotions in an intimate story.”
-- Bernardo BertolucciSource : "Legendary Oscar-Winner Bernardo Bertolucci’s Career Celebrated at MoMA". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2011.
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“If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.”
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“I'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. 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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“There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.”
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“Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.”
-- Bernardo BertolucciSource : "Legendary Oscar-Winner Bernardo Bertolucci’s Career Celebrated at MoMA". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2011.
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“A dolly move is a moral commitment.”
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“I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. Its 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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“I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.”
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“A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.”
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“I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.”
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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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“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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“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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“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 like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.”
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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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“What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. 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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