Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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.
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.
Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.
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.
Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
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.
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.
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.
After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.
Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.
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.
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.
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.
There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.
I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.
I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
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.
If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.
