"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..."

Source : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Laura Betti (1989). “Pier Paolo Pasolini: a future life”

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