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.
Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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