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

Bernardo Bertolucci

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Bernardo Bertolucci
Age: 77 †
Born: 1941
Born: March 16
Died: 2018
Died: November 26
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I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story I want to do, in a realistic, normal story, using 3D on the emotions in a kind of intimate story.
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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.
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New York has always embraced me.
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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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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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Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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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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I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's 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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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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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.
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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 am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
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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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You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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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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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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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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Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
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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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