Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Everyone learns from their experiences.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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I miss my dad, yes. But I try to honor his memory, as well as all the victims of Hurricane Katrina, through the love I have for all humanity, a love I try to express through my music.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.
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I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.
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Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.
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Nowadays, of course, flesh peddlers and scouting services identify the best athletes when they are still in junior high. Prospects are not allowed to sneak up on us.
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One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.
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I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.
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Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
