Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
(On making The Dreamers (2003)) It gave me the chance of visiting a moment that I really loved a lot, the late 1960s. It was a kind of magic moment in many senses. There was a fantastic projection of the future, of utopias, which were very noble in some ways. 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.
I don`t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
I am still against any kind of censorship. It`s a subject in my life that has been very important.
I don`t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
(On Los Angeles) The Big Nipple.
I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
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.
I am still against any kind of censorship. It`s a subject in my life that has been very important.
(In response to Ingmar Bergman`s contention that Ultimo tango a Parigi (1972) (US title: "Last Tango in Paris") was really about homosexuals, and only in those terms did the film make sense and become interesting) I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.
(His answer on 2 October 1979 to a woman who had just seen a special screening of Luna, La (1979) at the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute, Chicago) I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy. I don`t think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks. I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
(on Gerard Depardieu) Fills the space like a young Marlon Brando. He has an extraordinary intensity.
(on Marlon Brando) An angel as a man, a monster as an actor.
I don`t think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.
(on the untimely death of Pier Paolo Pasolini) A remarkable director -- a great loss to Italian culture. It was as if he was discovering cinema from scratch.
You know 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.
I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
