Bernardo Bertolucci's Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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!

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.