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… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
“If I then discovered a cancer in myself and died, I'd consider it a victory of that reality of things.” — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share
If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share
Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share
I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible,… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share
Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share
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… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share
The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share
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… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share
When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil... — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share
The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share
“I am black with love/ neither boy nor nightingale/ perfectly whole as a flower/ I desire without impulse” — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share
The power of consumer goods . . . has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them,… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share
“The sense comes back to me of life as it always was then, an affliction even blinder because wondrously filled with sweetness.” — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share
