Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“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.”

“If I don't fall in love with my characters, I cannot shoot.”

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

“New York has always embraced me.”

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

“I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great in a kind of realistic normal story without throwing objects to the camera, but using the 3D on the emotions in an intimate story.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”