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

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

Bernardo Bertolucci

#Thinking Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Instinct Quotes

“I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. Already I knew the list of crimes That I was destined to commit.”
“The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.”
“The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.”

Source : Ann Landers (2017). “Since You Ask Me”, p.245, Pickle Partners Publishing
“I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.”
“When we endure our own tragedies or trials, most of us develop some empathy and compassion for others who are suffering. The trick is to keep that sense of compassion going throughout our daily lives, when we are likely to go on automatic pilot and move back into being judgmental, especially when times are tough.”
“Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.”
“When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.”
“The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.”

Source : Pierre Loti (2005). “Egypt”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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