Bernardo Bertolucci famous quotes

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Thinking #Sometimes #Instinct

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.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Dream #Sleep #Thinking

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Office #Care #Messages

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Gun #Thinking #Tanks

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.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Thinking #Special #Stories

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Way #Life Is #Ambiguous

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Teacher #School #Cinema

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.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Rome #London #Pavement

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Thinking #Paris #Political

New York has always embraced me.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#New York

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 Bertolucci

#Father #Writing #Normal

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.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Reality #Cameras #Return

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.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Italian #Needs #Dialogue

To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Technology #Abandoned #Feels

You live day by day. You can't build your life.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

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 Bertolucci

#Thinking #Ideas #Cameras

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#New York #Apples #Hollywood

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.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Reality #People #Political

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Digital #Chance #Welcome

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Sometimes #Sync

A dolly move is a moral commitment.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Moving #Commitment #Moral

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!
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Claustrophobia

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Important #Censorship #Kind

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Democracy #Trying #Hollywood

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.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Dream #Missing #World

I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Thinking #Hollywood #Phases

After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Years

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 Bertolucci

#Distance #Thinking #Disappointed

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.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Writing #Editing #Loyal

I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Eye #Two #Cameras

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.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Waiting #Waste #Wasting Time

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.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Dreamer #Directors #Cinema