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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

Bernardo Bertolucci

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

Bernardo Bertolucci

New York has always embraced me.

– Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci

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

– Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci

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

Bernardo Bertolucci

I started in ’69 to have psychoanalysis, and I realised very soon that I was changing, and that’s I think why my movies were changing. They became much more open to dialogue.

– Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci

I started very, very young to make movies – I was 21. And at the age of 27, 28, I’d done already three movies.

– Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci

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

– Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci

I think politics is a higher build in life. You know? If you diffuse under normal, common sense of a story, you make it political. If you choose a conventional way for a story, or refuse to use the conventional way, you make it political.

– Bernardo Bertolucci

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

Bernardo Bertolucci

Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn’t because Germaine Greer supported me.

– Bernardo Bertolucci

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

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