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If you mention any ideologica...

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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Every film I have made has co...

Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone wanted to reconstruct the story of my life, they can just see my movies and know what I have been through.

Bernardo Bertolucci 46 quotes

What I was talking about was,...

What I was talking about was, of course, very autobiographical - '68 was the moment when all the young people were incredibly excited, because when we were going to sleep, we knew we would wake up not tomorrow, but in the future. There was a sense of future that was the result of the mixture of politics, cinema, music, the first joints. And the movies were a very important part of that cocktail.

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I was seduced by the nouvelle...

I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late '50s, early '60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism. I think cinema all over the world was influenced by it, which was Italy finding its freedom at the end of fascism, the end of the Nazi invasion. It was a kind of incredible energy. Then, late '50s, early '60s, the neo-realism lost its great energy and became comedy.

Bernardo Bertolucci 46 quotes

English dialogue is the best ...

English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.

Bernardo Bertolucci 46 quotes

I wanted to have a reaction f...

I wanted to have a reaction from the audience. I wanted to be able to talk to somebody, and not be talking just to myself. That's when I did 'The Conformist,' 'Last Tango in Paris,' etc. And I found it was incredibly rewarding, something new.

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I like to be in a huis clos, ...

I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!

Bernardo Bertolucci 46 quotes

What always made me proud - a...

What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me that 'The Conformist' is their first modern influence.

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I lived in a kind of dream of...

I lived in a kind of dream of communism.

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I was writing poems when I wa...

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

Bernardo Bertolucci 46 quotes

I make movies in order to mak...

I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.

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'Dreamers' was because I real...

'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.

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English dialogues are always ...

English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.

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I am in love with the idea of...

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.

Bernardo Bertolucci 46 quotes

I started very, very young to...

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 like being able to see an i...

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 am still against any kind o...

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Bernardo Bertolucci 46 quotes

I remember being young in the...

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

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Although some people call me ...

Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.

Bernardo Bertolucci 46 quotes

New York has always embraced ...

New York has always embraced me.

Bernardo Bertolucci 46 quotes

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