71 Quotes by Bernardo Bertolucci

I lived in a kind of dream of communism.

I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.

I saw 'Avatar' and liked it very much. It was a great achievement.

I started very, very young to make movies - I was 21. And at the age of 27, 28, I'd done already three movies.

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

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.

If I don't fall in love with my characters, I cannot shoot.

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

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