Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

No one will ever know the complete truth.

There's a lot of ambiguity in life, and so often, our art is very neatly wrapped up at the end, when our lives never feel that way.

There are always loose ends in real life.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

Sometimes there are no answers.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from the known into the unknown, but a surging sea of smashed wood, flotsam and drowning sailors.

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.

Life is so unlike theory.

We live in a bewildering world.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.

The enduring appeal of mystery stories for all of us is that the world is a pretty confusing place. There's a lot of really unanswered things, and perhaps the scariest notion would be that there might not always be answers out there for us.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.