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 am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.
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.
I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.
You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
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.
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.
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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 think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.