When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.
Interpretation
Pasolini emphasizes the direct connection between cinema and reality, devoid of literary conventions.
In this quote, Pier Paolo Pasolini expresses his belief that filmmaking allows for a raw and authentic representation of reality, contrasting it with literature, which often involves symbolic interpretations. He suggests that, in cinema, he immerses himself among people and nature, capturing the essence of life without any intermediate filters or abstractions, celebrating his passion for the real world through the medium of film.
In practice
During a film festival, you could use this quote to illustrate the passion and authenticity behind each project.
It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I have chosen to be a filmmaker as well as a writer it is because, rather than expressing reality through those symbols that are words, I have preferred the cinema as a means of expression - to express reality through reality.
And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.
I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.
Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.
I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.
You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.
The score is not a bible, and I am never afraid to dare. The music is behind those dots.
Whenever I make music, it reflects where I'm at mentally.
I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.
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