Cinema Quote by Bernardo Bertolucci

“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

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