Bernardo Bertolucci - biography

“I met Jack Nicholson at Pesaro in - ah - 1965.  We met because we were following the same girl.  And since she didn’t want me or Jack, we became friends.  Or was that Cannes?”

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

“I 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.”

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

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

“If New York is the Big Apple, then Hollywood must be the Big Nipple.”

“I adore TV - like everyone else.  But I watch very little.  There’s so very little worth watching.”

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

“I don’t think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.”

“I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.”

Bernardo Bertolucci directed the following films:
Il Conformista (1970)
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
1900 (1976)
Novecento (1976)
La Tragedia di un uomo ridicolo (1981)
L’Addio a Enrico Berlinguer (1984)
The Last Emperor (1987)
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Stealing Beauty (1996)
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
The Dreamers (2003)


Bernardo Bertolucci contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
C’era una volta il West (1968)
Il Conformista (1970)
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
1900 (1976)
Novecento (1976)
La Tragedia di un uomo ridicolo (1981)
L’Addio a Enrico Berlinguer (1984)
The Last Emperor (1987)
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Little Buddha (1993)
Stealing Beauty (1996)
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)