Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.
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A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.
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Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It's still numb.
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'The Wire's definitely one of them. 'The Sopranos' is one of my all-time favorites. Those are two big ones for me.
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The best smell in the world is that man that you love.
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No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
