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.
The magic of the music seems to light the way.
Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.
There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.
It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who hasn’t manifested in his career an appalling patience, a willingness to wait and to do his best now in the expectation that next year he will do better.
Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.
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