Pier Paolo Pasolini Quotes


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.


Citations

Pasolini, Pier Paolo. Pasolini on Pasolini: Interviews with Oswald Stack. Indiana University Press, 1969.

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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Born: March 5, 1922
  • Died: November 2, 1975
  • Nationality: Italian
  • Profession: Film Director, Novelist, Poet, Intellectual, Journalist

Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual, who also distinguished himself as an actor, journalist, novelist, playwright, and political figure. He remains a controversial personality in Italy due to his direct style and the focus of some of his works on taboo sexual matters. He was an established major figure in European literature and cinematic arts. His murder prompted an outcry in Italy and its circumstances continue to be a matter of heated debate.