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.
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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.
“After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. … Read More
I think that Hollywood should also be influenced by directors from Hong Kong. You see how Quentin Tarantino is really the example of how you can develop, and how you can go ahead if you accept the existence of different cinematic cultures. There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That’s why the independents are the most interesting.
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I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
“I like that 3D is based on the fact that you … Read More
Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere… terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.
“Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a … Read More
You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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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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The life before ’68 was very different from the life after ’68. Before ’68, our days were full of authoritarian moments. There were authorities everywhere. In fact, the movement of ’68 was young people against their authorities, children against their parents. And that remained. The most important thing of all, the thing that lasted, was the first feminist movement and the position of women in society. That completely changed and that was very, very important.
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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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Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
“Having no children had been a kind of choice up to … Read More
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
“Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make … Read More
I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
“I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember … Read More
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.
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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.
“To explore technology for me is something that I have to … Read More
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
“A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export … Read More
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
“If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the … Read More
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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New York has always embraced me.
“New York has always embraced me.” Bernardo Bertolucci
I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don’t care for politics. It isn’t present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.
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