The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

You live day by day. You can't build your life.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

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

- Bernardo Bertolucci

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

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

- Bernardo Bertolucci

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 abl…

- Bernardo Bertolucci

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

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 a…

- Bernardo Bertolucci

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

- Bernardo Bertolucci