Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct. Bernardo Bertolucci Read Quote
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 Read Quote
English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary. Bernardo Bertolucci Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Bernardo Bertolucci Read Quote
Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn’t because Germaine Greer supported me. Bernardo Bertolucci Read Quote
If you mention any ideological thing about shooting ‘Last Tango in Paris,’ I was thinking I was doing a political film. Bernardo Bertolucci Read Quote
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 Read Quote