After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.
Bernardo BertolucciI 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 BertolucciHaving no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
Bernardo BertolucciSometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
Bernardo BertolucciI 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.
Bernardo BertolucciI think that Hollywood should also be influenced by directors from Hong Kong. You see how Quentin Tarantino is really the example of how you can develop, and how you can go ahead if you accept the existence of different cinematic cultures. There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That's why the independents are the most interesting.
Bernardo Bertolucci