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I saw 'Avatar' and liked it very much. It was a great achievement.

~Bernardo Bertolucci

Topics: Achievement Avatar Great Great Achievement Liked Much Saw Very

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English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.

~Bernardo Bertolucci

Topics: Beautiful Best Dialogue Direct Dry English Italian Language Literary Too World

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I like being able to see an innocence in people. I see a lot of beauty in youth. Young people are in progress. Their faces and bodies and minds are constantly changing. It's exciting to capture that on film.

~Bernardo Bertolucci

Topics: Able Beauty Being Bodies Capture Changing Constantly Exciting Faces Film Innocence Like Lot Minds People Progress See Young Young People Youth I See

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

~Bernardo Bertolucci

Topics: Although Because Call Know Me People Some Some People Supported

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

~Bernardo Bertolucci

Topics: About Any Doing Film Ideological Last Mention Paris Political Shooting Tango Thing Thinking You

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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

Topics: Build Choose Common Common Sense Conventional Higher Know Life Make Normal Political Politics Refuse Sense Story Think Use Way You I Think

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

~Bernardo Bertolucci

Topics: Anything Basically Either Father Had Judging Poetic Something Two Ways

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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

Topics: Age Done Make Movies Started Three Very Young

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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

Topics: Became Changing Dialogue More Movies Much Open Psychoanalysis Realised Soon Started Think Very Were Why I Think

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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

Topics: Able Audience Conformist Did Etc Found Incredibly Just Last Myself New Paris Reaction Rewarding Somebody Something Something New Talk Talking Tango Wanted

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Writer

Born: March 16th, 1940

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