Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucciis an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky and The Dreamers. In recognition of his work, he was presented with the inaugural Honorary Palme d'Or Award at the opening ceremony of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Since 1979 he has been married to screenwriter Clare Peploe...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth16 March 1941
CityParma, Italy
CountryItaly
I'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.
Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.
Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.
This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep cinematographically, as a poet, a painter, lives, eats, sleeps painting.
I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
A dolly move is a moral commitment.
I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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.