Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life.
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After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.
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I like being able to see an innocence in people. I see a lot of beauty in youth. Young people are in progress. Their faces and bodies and minds are constantly changing. It's exciting to capture that on film.
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I lived in a kind of dream of communism.
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I started very, very young to make movies - I was 21. And at the age of 27, 28, I'd done already three movies.
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I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.
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I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.
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I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
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Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.
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I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great in a kind of realistic normal story without throwing objects to the camera, but using the 3D on the emotions in an intimate story.
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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.
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Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.
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I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
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If I don't fall in love with my characters, I cannot shoot.
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There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.
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If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.
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For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.
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I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.