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
Pier Paolo Pasolini quotes about
artist mouths passionate
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 official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens his mouth, an artist is engaged, because opening his mouth is always scandalous.
football sacred lasts
Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.
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...
revolution sentiments
The revolution is now just a sentiment.
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.