Top 82 Quotes About Bernardo
#1. Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#2. When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down.
Elaine Sciolino
#3. He's a senior in high school Bernardo. Jean-Claude is his legal guardian and had to enroll him in school. He comes home with homework and shit and then he wants to cuddle and have sex. It weirds me the fuck out.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#4. My nation is the Portuguese language,' he declared through Bernardo Soares (Text 259), but he also said: 'I don't write in Portuguese. I write my own self.
Fernando Pessoa
#5. Working with Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the greatest highlights of my whole life. It was such an incredible opportunity for me.
Liv Tyler
#6. I'll take him to the hospital " Bernardo said "but what do we put on the paperwork "
"Tell them it was a lover's quarrel " Olaf said.
"Over my dead body " I said.
"Eventually " he said.
"Don't be a sick fuck Olaf " I said.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#7. Bernardo looked at me, shaking his head. "I've never heard Edward talk about any woman the way he talks about you."
I raised eyebrows at him. "Meaning?"
"Dangerous. He talks about you like you're dangerous.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#8. BERNARDO Sit down awhile; And let us once again assail your ears, That are so fortified against our story
William Shakespeare
#9. I should mention Vittorio Storaro, who was Bernardo Bertolucci's cinematographer. You watch those films and they are exceptional.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#10. I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!
Bernardo Bertolucci
#11. The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#12. 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
#13. What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me that 'The Conformist' is their first modern influence.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#15. Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere ... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#16. My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#18. I started in '69 to have psychoanalysis, and I realised very soon that I was changing, and that's I think why my movies were changing. They became much more open to dialogue.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#19. 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
#20. For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#21. I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#22. Happiness cannot be found
it must be created anew everyday.
Jose Bernardo
#23. Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#24. Little Voice is a story where every reader, young or old, can feel inspired by its positive, inspiring and motivating message.
Amanda Bernardo
#26. There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#27. My father had a similar saying. He said that in heaven there's a huge cake reserved solely for married people who've never once regretted getting married. The cake's never been touched.
Bernardo Atxaga
#28. To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back ... abandoned.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#29. Wars today seem to occur at a more precise point in time but deep down they are permanent.
Bernardo Carvalho
#30. I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#37. The production and consumption of glucose, and hence, the blood sugar level, are controlled by a functional endocrine equilibrium.
Bernardo Houssay
#38. A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#39. I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#40. I like being able to see an innocence in people. I see a lot of beauty in youth. Young people are in progress. Their faces and bodies and minds are constantly changing. It's exciting to capture that on film.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#41. Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#42. When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.
Jose Bernardo
#43. 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
#45. Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#46. 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
#47. 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
#50. 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
#51. The constancy of the blood sugar level is maintained by a complex physiological mechanism, a homeostatic mechanism of the same order as those which maintain the body temperature, the blood pressure or the heart rate at normal levels and control many other functions.
Bernardo Houssay
#52. After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#53. 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.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#56. The nutritive substances used in greatest quantities by mammals are carbohydrates.
Bernardo Houssay
#57. You cannot be a good house in a rapidly deteriorating neighborhood. The credibility and the fair functioning of the neighborhood matter a great deal. Without that, the integrity of the capitalist system will weaken further".
Bernardo Kliksberg
#58. English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#59. I wanted to have a reaction from the audience. I wanted to be able to talk to somebody, and not be talking just to myself. That's when I did 'The Conformist,' 'Last Tango in Paris,' etc. And I found it was incredibly rewarding, something new.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#60. 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
#61. 'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#62. Indeed, it is nearly impossible for any person inserted in a modern cultural context to escape the haze of the zeitgeist and develop a truly unbiased, critical, and personal worldview.
Bernardo Kastrup
#64. I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#65. You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
Bernardo Bertolucci
#67. 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
#68. Knowing what you don't want in life is almost as helpful as having a five year plan. Vision doesn't always mean you know exactly what you want to do or where you want to be in life; sometimes, vision is knowing where you don't want to be in order to find where you should end up!
Amanda Bernardo
#69. I think politics is a higher build in life. You know? If you diffuse under normal, common sense of a story, you make it political. If you choose a conventional way for a story, or refuse to use the conventional way, you make it political.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#70. When I shoot, I try to feel the body and the face and the weight of the actor, because the character until that moment is only in the pages of the script. And very often, I pull from the life of my actors. I'm always curious about what these characters and these actors are hiding about their lives.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#71. If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#72. 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
#73. Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.
Jose Bernardo
#74. Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#75. Production and consumption of carbohydrates is so well regulated that there is a constant blood sugar level; any accidental increase or fall in blood sugar is rapidly compensated.
Bernardo Houssay
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#82. I started very, very young to make movies - I was 21. And at the age of 27, 28, I'd done already three movies.
Bernardo Bertolucci
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