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All Quotes by author - Bernardo Bertolucci

" After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth. "

" A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed. "

" I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks. "

" I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work. "

" I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is. "

" I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that. "

" 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! "

" I lived in a kind of dream of communism. "

" 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 think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment. "

" I wanted already to be a filmmaker after I saw 'La Dolce Vita.' "

" 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. "

" Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late. "

" The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference. "

" There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance. "

" To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You live day by day. You can't build your life. "

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