Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
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As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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I'm not looking back, but I want to look around me now. - Time Stand Still (1987)
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I am inspired by both Japanese Samurai films, in particular the films of Kurosawa, and how they share the spirit of American Westerns, with the influences running in both directions, and including the 'Spaghetti Westerns' and films of Sam Peckinpah.
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To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.
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This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.
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But it was important to simply be sought, even if you didn‟t ever want to be found.
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I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
