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Top 30 Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes (2025 Update)

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.”

1. “Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.”

2. “I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more – like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.”

5. “English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more – like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.”

6. “If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.”

8. “Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It’s not something I like but it’s the truth.”

11. “After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It’s not something I like but it’s the truth.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.”

12. “A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.”

13. “As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “A dolly move is a moral commitment.”

14. “A dolly move is a moral commitment.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. ‘The Dreamers’ was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.”

15. “What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. ‘The Dreamers’ was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.”

16. “If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “You live day by day. You can’t build your life.”

17. “You live day by day. You can’t build your life.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.”

18. “Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.”

19. “I 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 Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?”

20. “You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great in a kind of realistic normal story without throwing objects to the camera, but using the 3D on the emotions in an intimate story.”

21. “I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great in a kind of realistic normal story without throwing objects to the camera, but using the 3D on the emotions in an intimate story.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “There’s no more film; now everything’s digital. I welcome this. It’s fantastic for me to have a new chance.”

22. “There’s no more film; now everything’s digital. I welcome this. It’s fantastic for me to have a new chance.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone wanted to reconstruct the story of my life, they can just see my movies and know what I have been through.”

23. “Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone wanted to reconstruct the story of my life, they can just see my movies and know what I have been through.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

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Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say – in one place. Its something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!”

24. “I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say – in one place. Its something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.”

25. “I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.”

27. “I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “New York has always embraced me.”

28. “New York has always embraced me.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.”

29. “I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci Quote: “Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.”

30. “Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.”

— Bernardo Bertolucci

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