Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams.

- Pier Paolo Pasolini

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

- Pier Paolo Pasolini

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…

- Pier Paolo Pasolini

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.…

- Pier Paolo Pasolini

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

- Pier Paolo Pasolini

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for…

- Pier Paolo Pasolini

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

- Pier Paolo Pasolini

The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the c…

- Pier Paolo Pasolini

An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is of…

- Pier Paolo Pasolini