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Bernardo Bertolucci quotes

Ocupation: Film director

Life: b. March 16, 1940

Birthday: March 16

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

source: - "Bertolucci on Bertolucci". Interview with Rebecca Stokes, www.moma.org. January 3, 2011.

Topics: Thinking, Sometimes, Instinct

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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.

Topics: Dream, Sleep, Thinking

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

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Office, Care, Messages, Post Office

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

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Thinking, Special, Stories, Special Moments, Story Of My Life

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

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Teacher, School, Cinema, Film School, Film Students

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.

Topics: Rome, London, Pavement, Commuting

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

Topics: Thinking, Paris, Political, Tango

New York has always embraced me.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Father, Writing, Normal, Writing Poems

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.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Italian, Needs, Dialogue

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

Topics: Technology, Abandoned, Feels

You live day by day. You can't build your life.

source: - "Legendary Oscar-Winner Bernardo Bertolucci’s Career Celebrated at MoMA". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2011.

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.

source: - "Legendary Oscar-Winner Bernardo Bertolucci’s Career Celebrated at MoMA". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2011.

Topics: Thinking, Ideas, Cameras

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Digital, Chance, Welcome

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

source: - "Legendary Oscar-Winner Bernardo Bertolucci’s Career Celebrated at MoMA". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2011.

Topics: Sometimes, Sync

A dolly move is a moral commitment.

Topics: 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!

Topics: Claustrophobia

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

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Important, Censorship, Kind, Self Censorship

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

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Democracy, Trying, Hollywood, Monoculture

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.

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: 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.

Topics: 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.

Topics: 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.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Writing, Editing, Loyal, Auteur Theory, Auteurs

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Dreamer, Directors, Cinema, French Cinema

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.

Topics: Children, Heart, Hands

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late '50s, early '60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism. 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.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Italian, Thinking, Style

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.

Topics: Jesus, Self, Names, Grunt

The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life. But Hollywood has forgotten that, in the past, what made Hollywood great and what made it go ahead was the fact that Hollywood was fed with, for example, Jewish directors coming from Germany or Austria and enriching Hollywood. In 15, 20 years, Hollywood became imperialistic. Cinema goes ahead when it is marriaged by other culture. Otherwise, it turns on itself.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Unique, Past, Trying

I think that Hollywood should also be influenced by directors from Hong Kong. You see how Quentin Tarantino is really the example of how you can develop, and how you can go ahead if you accept the existence of different cinematic cultures. There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That's why the independents are the most interesting.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Tarantino

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. It was like watching the invention of cinema. But I found out that Pasolini taught me a lot. It was, especially, the kind of respect that he had for reality. He had kind of epiphanies in his movies, like when a moment becomes full of grace, and it is like as if it was the most important moment in the life of a character.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Very Smart

You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?

Topics: Playing Soccer

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. The most important thing of all, the thing that lasted, was the first feminist movement and the position of women in society. That completely changed and that was very, very important.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Feminist Movement

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