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.
Everybody must have a fantasy.
until only infinity remained of beauty
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.
We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it
A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event. I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of a second and then it darkens. A half part of the time when you see a picture you sit in complete darkness. Isn't that fascinating? That is magic.
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