Bertolucci Films Quotes & Sayings

I know you've got something nice in your pocket, George; give her some, — Louisa May Alcott

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. — Bernardo Bertolucci

Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside. — Kelly Clarkson

I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe. — Walter Mischel

I should mention Vittorio Storaro, who was Bernardo Bertolucci's cinematographer. You watch those films and they are exceptional. — Vilmos Zsigmond

This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep cinematographically, as a poet, a painter, lives, eats, sleeps painting. — Bernardo Bertolucci

She didn't like weepy films. She liked to
quote D. H. Lawrence : "Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself
of feelings you haven't really got." Hers were grim European films
- Antonioni, Bertolucci, Bergman - films where everybody
died or wished they had. — Janet Fitch

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini. — Vincente Minnelli

Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced. — Donald Barthelme

I'm sure the red fern has grown and has completely covered the two little mounds. I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it wouldn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too.
Yes, I know it is still there, for in my heart I believe the legend of the sacred red fern. — Wilson Rawls

Life is limited so people will appreciate it because there's a limit, we would try our best to live. — Gosho Aoyama

The most happy ought to wish for death. — Seneca The Younger

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. — Bernardo Bertolucci