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Bernardo Bertolucci

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When I shoot, I try to feel the body and the face and the weight of the actor, because the character until that moment is only in the pages of the script. And very often, I pull from the life of my actors. I'm always curious about what these characters and these actors are hiding about their lives. - Bernardo Bertolucci
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I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important. - Bernardo Bertolucci
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I wanted to have a reaction from the audience. I wanted to be able to talk to somebody, and not be talking just to myself. That's when I did 'The Conformist,' 'Last Tango in Paris,' etc. And I found it was incredibly rewarding, something new. - Bernardo Bertolucci
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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! - Bernardo Bertolucci
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I like being able to see an innocence in people. I see a lot of beauty in youth. Young people are in progress. Their faces and bodies and minds are constantly changing. It's exciting to capture that on film. - Bernardo Bertolucci
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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. - Bernardo Bertolucci
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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. - Bernardo Bertolucci
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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. - Bernardo Bertolucci
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English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary. - Bernardo Bertolucci
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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. - Bernardo Bertolucci
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Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late. - 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. - Bernardo Bertolucci
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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. - Bernardo Bertolucci
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