Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasoliniwas an Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual. Pasolini also distinguished himself as an actor, journalist, philosopher, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, painter and political figure...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth5 March 1922
CountryItaly
light world resistance
And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.
love-life exclusion longing
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 of life.
revolution sentiments
The revolution is now just a sentiment.
heart church states
...the Church is the merciless heart of the State.
demand progressive changed
The power of consumer goods . . . has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them, has emptied them of their meaning, and changed their nature.
real passion hands
In the end, oh I know, never, in my haggard passion, have I ever been such a cadaver as now as I take again in hand my tables of the present— if reality's real, but after it's been destroyed in the eternal and the moment by the obsessive idea of a shining nothingness.
life doe determine
Death does determine life.
pain waiting ends
Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.
important add doe
Death does determine life. 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. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.
hero mean reality
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...
life-is ambiguous suspended
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.
inspirational motivational reality
The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.
may nostalgia belief
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 a belief.
football sacred lasts
Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.