Pier Paolo Pasolini

Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual (1922–1975)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (5 March 19222 November 1975) was an Italian poet, writer, film director, and intellectual.

Pier Paolo Pasolini by Anatole Saderman (1962)

Quotes

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  • 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.
    • Interview in Film Culture, no. 42 (1966), p. 101.
  • My independence, which is my strength, implies my loneliness, which is weakness.
    (Italian: La mia indipendenza, che è la mia forza, implica la solitudine, che è la mia debolezza.)
  • Nothing is more anarchic than power. Power does what it wants.
    (Italian: Nulla è più anarchico del potere, il potere fa praticamente ciò che vuole.)
  • Seriousness is the only quality of people who have no other ones.
    (Italian: La serietà è la qualità di coloro che non ne hanno altre.)
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