Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucciis an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky and The Dreamers. In recognition of his work, he was presented with the inaugural Honorary Palme d'Or Award at the opening ceremony of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Since 1979 he has been married to screenwriter Clare Peploe...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth16 March 1941
CityParma, Italy
CountryItaly
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.
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.
I started very, very young to make movies - I was 21. And at the age of 27, 28, I'd done already three movies.
I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.
New York has always embraced me.
Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I've been called by a million names all my life. I don't want a name. I'm better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.
If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.
To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.
There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.
I'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.
I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.
I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.