Bernardo Bertolucci quotes

Bernardo Bertolucci was an Italian film director and screenwriter, internationally recognized for his visually stunning and provocative films. His works often explored themes of politics, sexuality, and personal identity. He became one of the most influential auteurs in European cinema. Here are 27 of his quotes:

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is. (Bernardo Bertolucci)

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

Bernardo Bertolucci

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

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

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

Bernardo Bertolucci

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Bernardo Bertolucci

English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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

Bernardo Bertolucci

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

Bernardo Bertolucci

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. (Bernardo Bertolucci)

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.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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

Bernardo Bertolucci

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

Bernardo Bertolucci

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

Bernardo Bertolucci

New York has always embraced me.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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

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

Bernardo Bertolucci

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.

Bernardo Bertolucci

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.

Bernardo Bertolucci

The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life. (Bernardo Bertolucci)

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

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.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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

Bernardo Bertolucci

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

Bernardo Bertolucci

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Bernardo Bertolucci

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Photo: Associazione Culturale Cinemazero from Pordenone, Italia, CC BY-SA 2.0

Occupation: Italian Writer
Born: March 16, 1941
Died: November 22, 2018
Quotes count: 27
Wikipedia: Bernardo Bertolucci

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