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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

Topics: Accept Attempt Before Camera Create Each Film Films Interpretations Kind Least Make Me Only Poem Poetry Reality Return

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For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.

~Bernardo Bertolucci

Topics: Adolescent American Being Dreaming Dreams Filmmakers Hollywood Like Me Mirror Mystic Oscars Thing

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What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me that 'The Conformist' is their first modern influence.

~Bernardo Bertolucci

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The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.

~Bernardo Bertolucci

Topics: Accepted Conformist Desperate Difference Different He His Look Never Reason Understands

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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

Topics: Absolutely Because Father Follow Know Normal Poems Poet Writing You Young

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I wanted already to be a filmmaker after I saw 'La Dolce Vita.'

~Bernardo Bertolucci

Topics: After Filmmaker La Saw Wanted

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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

Topics: American American Way Become Cinema Culture Everywhere Hollywood Imposition Kind Life Okay Only Problem Try Unique Way Which World

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'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.

~Bernardo Bertolucci

Topics: About After Back Because Change Change The World Could Dreamers Go Heard Me Much Nonsense People Really Thought Wanted World Young Young People

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

~Bernardo Bertolucci

Topics: After Go Instinct Make Movies Off Often Really Sometimes Them Think Understand Very I Think

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I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.

~Bernardo Bertolucci

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Writer

Born: March 16th, 1940

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