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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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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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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I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.
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Life outside of Earth is probably going to be really hard to find.
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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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I think I am an adult.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
