I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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You know 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.
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[on the untimely death of Pier Paolo Pasolini] A remarkable director -- a great loss to Italian culture. It was as if he was discovering cinema from scratch.
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I don`t think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.
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[on Marlon Brando] An angel as a man, a monster as an actor.
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[on Gerard Depardieu] Fills the space like a young Marlon Brando. He has an extraordinary intensity.
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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy. I don`t think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks. I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
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[His answer on 2 October 1979 to a woman who had just seen a special screening of Luna, La (1979) at the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute, Chicago] I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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[In response to Ingmar Bergman`s contention that Ultimo tango a Parigi (1972) (US title: "Last Tango in Paris") was really about homosexuals, and only in those terms did the film make sense and become interesting] 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.
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I am still against any kind of censorship. It`s a subject in my life that has been very important.
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I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
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I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
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[On Los Angeles] The Big Nipple.
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I don`t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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I am still against any kind of censorship. It`s a subject in my life that has been very important.
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I don`t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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[On making The Dreamers (2003)] It gave me the chance of visiting a moment that I really loved a lot, the late 1960s. It was a kind of magic moment in many senses. There was a fantastic projection of the future, of utopias, which were very noble in some ways. I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
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Trivia
The young Bertolucci took after his father, a Roman poet and film critic, and became a celebrated published poet by the age of 20. He gave up poetry for the cinema after working as an assistant to Pier Paolo Pasolini on the movie Accattone (1961).
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Was voted the 44th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
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Homage at the 48th Donostia-San Sebastián Film Festival. [2000]
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Was a close friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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Born at 7:25pm-CET
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In July of 1990, along with Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra and Marcello Mastroianni, he wrote: "With the death of Sergei Parajanov cinema lost one of its wizards.".
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Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 121-127. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
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Supported the Italian Communist Party (PCI).
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Brother of Giuseppe Bertolucci, cousin of Giovanni Bertolucci.
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He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture.
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President of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990
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Son of poet Attilio Bertolucci.
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