Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes

Italian - Writer | March 16, 1940 -

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

Bernardo Bertolucci

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

Bernardo Bertolucci

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I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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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.

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

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

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'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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I lived in a kind of dream of communism.

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My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.

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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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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.

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