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 wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.
I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
The writers' room is an open forum where anything mad or weird that aggressively shakes up the show can be suggested and considered.
My style says, 'Look at me, don't look at me.'
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