"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 was an Italian film director and screenwriter whose work included The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, and The Last Emperor. He became the first Italian-born filmmaker to win the Academy Award for Best Director.