"Sure, let's go an interview by:" "Whenever..." "There is a cinema that never had cinema..." "It's always been a plebiscite against good taste, which is how Nietzsche described the theatre." "But it suits better the cinema where people have been sitting in a dark or semi-lit hall," "for a very long time and, incomprehensibly, a "square" suddenly lights up!" "If they left in the dark that one also..." "it would be a sort of..." "But we westerners are not used to..." "There's lack of "East"" "India's too easy, It's not enough to just... turn out the lights..." "as it should be with... opera stages, let's say..." "or where a play is on." "The director's style is always there" "A good service, this sort of things..." "The music of Rossini, for example, is full of... non-events, non-facts." "Take Verdi's operas, in which... the theatrical aspect is found in the music itself." "They don't need to further develop the action." "In fact, the word "actor" comes from... the verb "adagere" or "to thrust", not from "agire" or "to act"." "You have all this riff-raff coming and going on the stage... has alienated from the theatre, ever since... the 1900's" "An entire audience, right?" "Except the subscription holders... who form a sort of elite made up of small masses." "The tiranny of the common people." "They go to see... anything!" "The cinema is another kettle of fish..." "It's the celebration of the Lumière brothers." "That is:" "Since the Lumière period, what has come out of it?" "If you exclude that minimum of "self-fright"... sought at all costs," "or that hint of bewilderment in certain Africa tribes... at the sight of that train." "The Lumières..." "I think their commemoration goes on since 19th century." "The same one which has been perpetuated." "It's a celebration in which people live out fake encounters." "It's hack reporting organized along... the lines of mass tourism" "a poor man's Las Vegas for reporters paid to add "colour"... not that coloured themselves... nor colourful." "They just get by somehow." "It was never based on writings" "Writings only go for literature" "Every writer must first of all be able to withdraw himself..." "He must be a foreigner... in his own language, obviously" "As far as I'm concerned:" "I never use it, not even in a play abroad." "Even if..." "I'm acting for pygmies, or Russians... or Lapps," "I always put aside the simultaneous translation or anything that mediates" "Maybe the only non-history of the cinema is the one by Gilles Deleuze:" ""Image-Temps", the first volume, then the second" "It even mentions, actually..." "yours truly, CB." "Hereby absent, and Antonioni with reference to the body" "That's to say we "are" a body, we don't "have" a body." "You could put Carmelo Bene and Antonioni in the same sentence... as complete opposites, but focusing on the body" "The characters, the figures..." "Yes, I'd call them "figures"," ""characters" implies a certain psicology, right?" "The role, the part..." "They're tired, and so on but no one ever realised, not even Michelangelo Antonioni, maybe, has ever realised that... there's something ridiculous in this..." "He's perfectly aware of that" "A master of irony, maybe..." "His films are the only ludicrous films, in my opinion." "By "ludicrous" I don't mean "funny"." "Schopenhauer... distinguished between "funny" and "ludicrous"." ""Funny" are those you see on tv." ""Ludicrous" is something sharp, like a blade." "It's cold and comes suddenly like a poison, hot ice, cold heat..." "I don't want to overdo it with these catch phrases but... this is the basic concept." "For me, the author is separate from the work," "You "are" a masterpiece, You cannot "produce" a masterpiece" "This is my attitude "vis-à-vis" the image." "An image is always vulgar" "I can't stand representations." "Every representation is a state-sponsored representation." "I'm not keen on art, even works by great artists like Raffaello..." "Maybe I can exclude Raffaello, Velasquez..." "I'd exclude Bernini." "Something by Canova, and that's it" "Because they've gone beyond art." "It's a story about the commissioning of art." "The cinema isn't the 7th art." "The cinema is nothing." "Indeed, film festivals are festivals of hybrid entities, totally" "That "total theatre" in which Wagner and Schoenberg failed miserably." "They missed it." "Thank goodness!" "It's a mixture..." "The cinema has always been the tributary of literature... of music." "A musician used to accompany films, today there's music in films, music written for films." "It was never "filming itself"" "I've never seen a film in my life!" "I say that to see a film, you need to dive into "Ulysses" by Joyce, maybe." "So, it's not a question of seeing filmed material, but rather of what's happening now." "Yet it's written down!" "Or in certain parts of the "Divine Comedy", but in the anastatic copies from the original printed in Foligno;" "in the Codex of Brescia, the "Ravennati", which I have..." "Where the written part tends toward the spoken one." "In the cinema, there's the addition of dubbing." "Dubbing is the umpteenth... the umpteenth copy" "that becomes this sort of... tiny masturbation of the set on the set..." "of the set illuminated with great attention..." "The entire opus of Fellini, for instance... is nothing more than a disastrous... self-gratification of the set." "He's neither a great acrobat nor a firefighter." "Alas, he's a film maker." "You can't make literature out of literature." "You can't make music out of music, You can't make films out of films." "Just as you can't live off life." "You need to look elsewhere." "But where's this "elsewhere" in the movies?" "Where is the difference, I mean what isn't here now?" "It's all well organized, crafted, with costumes that win awards..." "There are always "awarded companies"." "It's movie making to win Oscars:" "The more it wins the more foolish it is." "But not foolish in a noble sense." "It's a shrewd kind of foolishness." "It's fools wanting to act shrewdly." "They are newly literate, aren't they?" "Godard!" "I "Cahiers"!" "There's this intellectualism incapable of... examining the problem, the split between written and oral." "At least for the images, isn't there an image?" "There's a backside up there?" "That would be rather international" "It doesn't need any dubbing." "But they even dub backsides!" "Sure!" "They'd even be capable of dubbing a backside!" "And they dub it with words, it talks" "The cinema is a vulgar medium, it has very strict codes" "There's no such thing as Italian or American cinema." "In the last 20 years, the Americans have over-used... so-called "special" effects." "It's very trite..." "Italian cinema, from realism with and without bicycles... and the squalor that always had... in the dubbing, the music... and the landscapes." "It's a completely different genre." "You can't bother distinguish between the up-and-coming category... it's no longer Third but Fifth Worldism productions." "We'll soon get Tenth Worldism" ""Deca-dent"!" ""Ten Teeth", as Cardarellli used to say" "Stuttering cinema, eccentricity." "Everything is linked and anchored to a language." "Movies from Burundi will make cinema from Burundi." "But then it's got nothing to do with Burundi, as..." "American films have got nothing to do with America." "Some say: "Art shouldn't have anything to do with real life"." "A shamelss, loud fart might well offer me... a nasty objection, so to say" "In actuality, it would be inconceivable." "Life has nothing to do with it... because in our routine we deem it understandable." "We find our balance somehow." "I've never seen an unbalanced film." "The first thing people always say is: "It's well shot!"" ""It's shot very well!" What does "It's well shot" mean?" "Did they have to shoot?" "If only..." "Artaud wanted to add smells to films in cinemas." "All kinds of smells, even fetid ones!" "Then he ended up doing the "choreographer"." "Leaving aside is greatness in crucifying the French language... with his trimming of the written page." "I've never seen a "trimming" cinema." "There was something of the kind in Taylor, in somebody... like that, when I was a boy, and... and in the so-called "filmettes"..." "These sketches by Warhol..." "for example, the one "au restaurant"." "In one there was a backside on the screen for a whole minute." "But usually films tell the story of a couple, with the addition of a funny character here and there... but there's always room for a little vulgarity." "These couples... converse, stay silent, turn their backs or... walk towards the camera, "This way, you idiot!" "You should look the other way!" In the dialogues..." "Close ups, long shots," "It's really a story..." "It's reminiscent of a battle, not Kafkaesque in nature, but equally absurd." "It's just that Kafka knew what was what, while movie makers don't." "Even Pier Paolo, Pasolini..." "we were close friends, used to say: "Cinema is a passion." "Once you start, you can't stop."" "If only he'd stopped!" "But then Pasolini's "Salò-Sade"" "features some elements that don't belong in movies." "It has all that unspeakable D'Annunzio-inspired philosophy." "His interpretation, albeit a little didactic, was one of the most lucid of Sade and his philosophy... because it was part of him, too." "He was a violent man." "Then he wrote poetry, but Poetry..." "but they weren't poems." "He was nothing like Pascoli." "You just think of Pascoli's greatness and of his "Alexandros"... his "Myricae"" "of "Fantolino" and other works of the kind." "Pasolini's poetry was like his his weak, high voice." "But then Farinelli was never just his high voice!" "If you get my drift." "Italy has produced melodrama, the best of the best, thanks to Gluck, Saville and other similar writers... to increase... to give music a higher psychological profile... through the libretto." "But then... the betrayal..." "fortunately in not playing total theatre." "At that time there was no radio, no cinema, nor anything." "Except 2 or 3 mistakes with total theatre, we lived trough times of pure solfeggios and mere folly." ""Nella testa ho un campanello"" "For the final scene of "An Italian in Algiers", there's no need to read Stendhal." "It surely goes beyond human genius." "In the cinema, I've never heard "Nella testa ho un campanello"." "The cinema is destined... that is, has assigned itself a social role." "Everytime we speak of social roles, we find ourselves in a huge septic pit" "It's what Schopenhauer called "human excrement"." "It's not even a documentation!" "Historians..." "My anti-historicism is at a point..." "it turns my stomach" "The Dolce Vita was something that took place in all its squalor 20 years before Fellini, Pinelli and Flaiano re-created it." "Everything is a reconstruction." "The cinema started out as... an imbecilic attempt at restoration... requested by no one." "You can't restore..." "Gozzano's "Signorina Felicita"" "just as you can't restore..." "Joyce's "Ulysses"!" "People have tried!" "You can't "trans-fer", as in "transfers"" "Henry James precisely because... the charm, greatness and feeling... rest on the very fact that you don't see." "That's why the radio is incredibly powerful!" "As far as I'm concerned, my cinema is a demolition of images... due to the frantic editing, the repetitiveness." "The repetion, as a difference" "Certain shots, the breakout of white screens... counterpoint the overly coloured, entirely unacceptable." "The cinema needs to be unacceptable and incomprehensible, just as grand theatre is acceptable if it's incomprehensible." "If it stems out of "logos" of dialectics, if it stems out of a documentation, if it becomes a concept of film as a document, a survey... there's no such thing as imagination." "Imagination belongs to a form of disease." "It's best not to dabble in it." "The cinema has never managed to become independent." "That's very hard!" "Because freezing an image..." "Take Francis Bacon." "I think he eliminated the whole history of the commissioning of paintings, of figurative art, which I was already suspicious of, except in Bacon's case, naturally." "In Bacon's and that of others I've mentioned." "In the cinema, there's no sign of it." "No one works on the actual film." "There are no longer the 3 layers of film used for Technicolor:" "Yellow, blue and magenta, for commercial reasons, because for the last 70 years, it has plummeted into "actualism"" "No one thought about the importance of the "skin" of the film, the actual body," "that body which films itself, the dismembering of the body." "There's no need for Artaud's nostalgia for the origin." "Rather, in this feeling of happiness... given that happiness isn't necessarily happy this Eliogabalus-like delight at this dismembering..." "I can't see anything." "Bunuel is a tremendously bourgeois author, don't mention it." "And then, author of what?" "In any case, you need to work both sides of the movie camera." "Or cine camera, however you want to call it... not only on one side" "Just like "direction theatre" only produced a few "confitures"" "but they're never "au carbure"" "They're always consolatory..." "To console what?" "They're boring" "So, if the theatre is a plebiscite against good taste..." " Nietzschean - the cinema is three times worse." "It's the failure of the theatre raised to the third power." "In a social sense, moreover, having dealt with, dealing with simply a social surrogate, an alibi supported, or better:" ""Self"-supported" "Indeed, society has abandoned it:" "Cinemas are empty, some have even closed down." "There's no more need to turn off:" "They don't even put them on anymore." "People who write for the cinema are just... failures, in a shallow sense." "I don't mean they're part of a minority... in the Deleuzian sense of 'minor'" "as he refers to the 'here absent'." "Or even in the wonderful... pamphlet on Kafka." "The cinema has nothing to do with anything, but it thinks it can group everything together." "Moreover, it's flat, with that screen sitting there." "It's not a question of definition... more or less accurately set up." "I've never been a cinema goer except as a little boy." "I made some films to get it out of my system," ""Our Lady of the Turks", in 1968..." "It buried 1968:" "The stupidest year in history of human excrement." "It buried the cinema, at the same time." "I've never seen anything in the cinema... other than an irritation." "I'm irritated by all the preparation, the seamstress who just left, the make up artists who just powdered your nose, somebody just put on some glycerine, the tears never falling properly..." "The cinema has never questioned its own value." "You can only dance St. Vitus' dance." "One should never try to patch up a crisis, whether it concerns the theatre or the cinema." "One should patronise a theatre or cinema in crisis, but only to finish it off and leave..." "It's no good fooling oneself that odd little works are interesting." "The idea that it records the way things are in any given era... is untrue," "It doesn't report anything at all!" "The 20th century has been a very interesting era." "On the pathological level... that deserve all of our attention." "It saw the big concentration camps." "This is a pathological element, beyond the concept of good and evil." "But it also produced Joyce, Kafka..." "I ask myself: "Who wasn't there?" Including De Chirico and Bacon..." "Stravinsky..." "Naturally, he wasn't Rossini, but Stravinsky paid homage, through his "Jeu des cartes"" "to Rossini's lightheartedness and gracefulness." "Where's the levity in the cinema?" "I don't see any grace in it." "Where is the beauty that's more beautiful than beauty... as Schopenhauer would say referring to the music of Bellini?" "I don't see any of this." "I don't see Schopenhauer's lesson anywhere." "I don't see it in the theatre or in the music of the 20th century, or in the cinema." "Least of all in the cinema." "The Luce film institute, the "Duce", or what?" "What purpose does it serve?" "Facts don't exist." "Aristotle himself... taught us that." "A fact exists if it's recounted well." "In that case, it lives..." "but only because it's happened." "But then, facts don't happen." "History doesn't exist." "It's just a disjointed recounting of facts that never happened." "In any case, it pays too much attention to mass afflictions, therefore, it's out of focus." "There's no need for recrimination." "It's simply a bore, for a bunch of..." "There's nothing worse than an intellectual figure, when... when he tries to recall what childhood masturbation was like." "He'll never remember that because the cinema is something different." "The cinema is mainly based on copulation... and that's simulated too!" "The make-believe, for which you rebuke the theatre..." "Our entire life is already based on representatives and representation." "We need to release some will, whereas in the theatre, all this is doubled, and, as I said earlier, in the cinema it's cubed!" "But representation follows very specific rules... laid down in advance." "It's not just the state:" "Every representation is a state representation." "It's chiefly a question of authors." "That's why Cage burned scores, his own scores, because he considered score music... private property." "In the theatre, you work on a script that is already written, but which is then passed on..." "Again, "trans-ferred"." "Re-read, recited and reviewed... by a sort of retired policeman, who became a critic... who, to quote Leon Blois insists in sleeping in someone else's bed," "in someone else's home, and the cinema, which is this very strange tenant... appears like something that has... emerged from the ineptitude of the Social Security department" "and dabble in "actualism"." "The cinema has always insisted on occupying, settling in a home that doesn't belong to it." "Different homes, even switching on a daily basis." "But always other people's." "The only legacy of this century will be the great criminology." "Material for those who are very interested in crime." "I'm very interested in crime." "There will still be Riina," "Pasquale Barra "The Animal"..." "or Cutolo." "I'm talking about speculation and business." "The great essays on non-thinking already applied in the 19th century, belong to 20th century philosophy." "You just have to take Emile Plateau ...or Michel Foucault Jacques Lacan Deleuze, Klossowski... or even Derrida." "The language is being dismantled We had Sassure, gentlemen!" "You silly boys, long in the tooth..." "you who were born dead..." "A "significant" does not mean a "significance"." "I've never seen a film for significants, or at the mercy of significants." "I can only see meanings, messages." "You haven't spoken of the invention of magnetic tape... with which, you can shoot and record... not an object that was being picked up." "The cinema has always been dialectic, like the worst prose theatre." "It doesn't have the grace of melodrama, for instance." "Or the folly of melodrama." "It has absolutely nothing of what you find in melodrama" "There's never a subject that's..." "in pornography, precisely;" "that's visually pornographic..." "or audibly pornographic." "I mean it in the sense of ob skene, the origin of the term." "Not what you find on a newsstand..." "Nasty comics." "I'm talking about when the object and the subject are complementary." "It's what Kant called a noumen." "You don't see it, there's only will and representation, never for abandon, I've never seen abandon in the cinema." "Nor in the theatre either." "I've never heard it in 20th century music, not even in works by the great Stravinsky." "We have to go back to the early 19th century, maybe to Bellini, Rossini or Pergolesi... or Cimarosa." "But particularly in Rossini, in the pure solfeggio," "in the lack of deference, the trampling of syntax or phrasing." "It's the freeing oneself of words or language that counts." "It's focusing on the black holes." "It's the concept that Lacan understood and used thoroughly." "How can the cinema..." "let's leave aside the theatre and literature" "How can it express abandon?" "How can it produce another Rossini?" "How can one solfeggiare this state?" "Can we have a stuttering solfeggio?" "It should be a Hobbesian state." "I'm referring to Thomas Hobbes." ""A state that would have to be so distorted"...said somewhere this extremely profound scholar of the language, Hobbes." "He wrote at least 80 or 90 books, on language." "In such a light one should read Nietzsche, as well as Hobbes'... political writings." "But the state needs to be so corrupt as to discourage any criminal intent in individuals, in citizens." "In fact, after the "Leviathan"..." "the "De Cive";" "there, the citizen can't do anything, basically." "He can try but he won't be successful... because the state is always more corrupt than him, more monstrous and more criminal than him." "It makes your heart sink." "If you imagine Riina... multiplied by..." "10 million light years!" "I don't know..." "I want to use a hyperbole!" "There would be less amateurism even in... all these rapes and other crimes." "There's so much amateurism." "So much..." "They do it out of vanity, to represent, so they can have a story to tell." "The police deal with this each day, sometimes losing their own lives." "They have limited resources that are overstretched." "They lose their lives for nothing." "Because here we're facing such..." ""amateur night" type crimes." "The "Bribesville" scandal was amateurish, like some firm's social club." "They never really worked." "Italian Customs  Finance Police are still amateurs." "The SISDE..." "they call them 007" "Not that the Italians take them for Sean Connery," "They know perfectly well who we're talking about." "They're fathers' families, and 'pater familias'." "There was one witness who lied... about the case concerning the "Bergamo clinic"." "He wasn't considered trustworthy as he'd said the "Monster of Florence"" "was Alberto Bevilacqua." "Then you have..." "Bevilacqua" "Exactly, but then..." "That is it." "They found that poor fellow, Pacciani, guilty with no real evidence." "Whereas, speaking in a friendly way... meaning of friendship..." "in its distance," "Bevilacqua might deserve..." "He's produced a lot, to bring it to himself" "But he doesn't deserve it because..." "Parma is a closed, provincial town." "He'd actually risk appearing respectable" "Like Alberoni is when he speaks of psychology." "Philology leads to the worst option as we know from Ionesco." "There's a lot of amateurism around." "That is it." "So, the worst enemy of cinema is the author" "I don't think there's one single Italian today... who hasn't used a video camera to film something." "We need to organize a festival tracking people who've seriously never been to the cinema..." "and never shot a film." "Not even a home movie." "It's worth having a festival for them, and moreover, they should all be blind." "A festival for the sight-impaired." "No, I prefer to avoid this euphemism:" "For the blind!" "But they'd have to be... or have been aesthetic people, and have already stripped bare of those aesthetics and ethics," "and as perfect criminals..." "blindly sit in that cinema which seems luminous to them... being blind" "The nostalgia for things, starts with: "I appeared to the Madonna"" "which is never a starting-point, though." "An act isn't an action, from the verb agere." "Agere means impetrating, asking..." "That's why the Virgin Mary is called an "ad-vocate"." "After her, they all became advocates." "The word is used in courts of law." "It has been vulgarized." "This is a misuse of the term." "Of the term "advocate"." "The word 'actor' comes from act + rhetorical." "It has nothing to do with doing chores or coming and going." "Otherwise..." "What's the meaning of this coming and going?" "Even Puccini's "opera verista" is right in comparison." "Puccini was the first to admit..." ""Melodrama is well over"." "And he did so at the height of his success!" "Like me, when I was enjoying worldwide success, albeit in a type of cinema... for an elitist audience." "Although the French elite... is made up of millions of people." "Later, these millions turned into tiranny of the common people'." "The cinema consists of filmed actions." "It's almost a story... an historic narration of the action, but the story has always been a non-story of the act." "An act is never an action." "An act is the oblivion that overwhelms us, as it overwhelmed Lorenzo de' Medici..." "and all the tyrant killers... when, for example, they thrust their sword into the tyrant." "There, they cannot think about what they agreed on, an ideology..." "Am I clear?" "About an ethics... etiquette or morals." "They simply can't." "They have to act and as they do, they lose their way." "They no longer exist." "Then, shortly afterwards, it's not the action that reappears, but the jointly governed bodies survive the act... and it assumes the right to the action." "I've never seen anything spontaneous at the cinema." "Anyway, there couldn't be since everything is shot beforehand." "That's a fact." "Anything can happen to an actor on stage, even an accident." "He may trip and fall." "If it's cinema, they re-shoot the scene." ""Stop!" "That wasn't good!" "Let's do it again!"" "And they re-shoot so much!" "Because however they shoot their pretty "love stories"... and the ones about hatred too, it's as if they don't actually work for a living." "They're all either billionaires or poor unemployed people, with or without the proverbial bycicles of neo-realism..." "Filmes with Cary Grant, etc." "They're all actually unemployed." "They've nothing to do." "They hassle the neighbours and so on, but when do they go to work?" "I mean a place of work, correctly considered a form of slavery." "Where's their assembly line?" "I'm not talking of the hard slog, which only applies to Bernini" "and to a few others, to Cervantes... or to a certain Velasquez." "When music overtakes music in its musicality, it has an energetic force of its own." "The cinema still exists only in perception, in ideology, especially in the principle..." "in the "principium individuations"" "to quote the great German, again." "It will never gain access, being a mere mediation... to the subconscious." "It cannot gain access to what is incomprehensible... because that's made up of moments of grace... which, maybe once a millennium, the theatre proper, overcoming the boundaries of the representation, manages to give, as it gave Nijinsky," "or as it gave "Me", for example." "I'm perfectly aware of that." "There has to be something unwitnessable... that overtakes the creator of the work." "Then it's the creator who is the masterpiece, and the work... shouldn't leave any traces, nor any legacy, hence..." "It's always damaged by expression, what they call the dramatic fart of the state." "But in this case urbi et orbi:" "Orbi as in... broadly speaking" "The universe." "I've never seen a film that showed me sight." "It's shown me specifically this or that... always with bodies linked to..." "Lebole clothing... or others, depending on the era." "Pin-striped suits..." "Film makers don't have a job." "They've nothing to do... because they were supposed to make that film, and that's all." ""Gone with the wind"." "What nonsense!" "Not a leaf stirs!" "And there's absolutely no wind, except the one made with special effects, you can tell." "And you can hear it too!" "When you see something a little different, even that's become acceptable." "Any state, especially a democratic or republican one, considers what's different." "It doesn't neglect it." "Far from it!" "It wants to subsidize it, if it can." "As in a flock." "You'll always find a black sheep, but it will still be a sheep." "...for the pig-like state... that doesn't realize to be such." "If it were a real pig, it might be a handsome one!" "The Venice Film Festival is an event at which a thousand films are killed off." "And that's one thousand." "We need to kill off information as an enemy of culture, and culture as an enemy of illiteracy which should be restored." "Culture in the Derridian sense, with the common root in "colo", colonization." "But if culture is colonization, what on earth is information... which never informs us of facts but informs the facts." "Because even if it wanted to, it couldn't inform facts, how could it?" "When they belong to a non-story?" "A non-event." "I believe that for the plebiscite proposed by Marco Pannella... among the issues to be put... to a referendum... one was the disbanding of the Journalists' Association." "It's high time they did that!" "Until we finally get rid of this "information"!" "I'm not saying there should be no journalists, at all." "Not that they're followed by so many people!" "Those on TV are more dangerous, but no one reads the others... because of the limited literacy in the country." "Journalists tend to pollute the language, they add English words or saying, or German expressions, in a manner that..." "They aim for an eccentric touch, come diceva..." "Barthes about "Elle's kitchen":" "What in the "Espresso" magazine means to have ideas!" "It referred to the French "Express" but the Italian "Espresso" is the same." "How can people read in depth something written in "Panorama"," ""Espresso" or "Repubblica"?" "I can't understand it." "Let alone in the News on TV." "They're subconsciously aware, in the Freudian sense, that the common unknown belongs to the masses, but also to them." "Indeed, when they show catastrophes, they don't trust..." "the viewer's conscience." ""Look what a catastrophe this is!"" ""See how terrible it is!" "Look how much blood there is!"" "It's the spoken word that... deforms facts and misinforms," "while it should inform." "But they mix up the two." "And what is this?" "Mistrust in images." "On the part of the tv news reader"." "There's really no need to comment on the pictures." "They show Serbs hacking up a couple of children." "You can see it for yourself." ""Look!" "They're hacking them up!" Sure, it's called hacking, how else?" "It's not in their ears, it's in their eyes!" "This mistrust is symptomatic of what I said about the cinema." "Not even journalists trust images!" "It's dead, it is something aseptic, it's not in sensations like Bacon is in sensations." "What Bacon does isn't painting." "It has nothing visual about it." "Here, we come back to the brilliant essay by Gilles Deleuze." "He doesn't miss a beat!" "...Gilles" "He really is a machine!" "I can't go to the cinema if... it's like when a fly lands on your television screen." ""What did you see last night?" "A fly!"" "That fly is so important... that maybe there was Pippo Baudo on tv, who notices him?" "Watching him, you don't see him" "The image is drained of blood." "It doesn't even have the grace of a certain kind of convalescence." "Like all problems, this is a non-problem." "That's why the cinema will continue to be a problem for lazy people, fomented by republican cultural committees... and democratic ones." "There's nothing to celebrate in the first place." "They can commemorate..." "As a neocrophile enjoys going to cemeteries." "Other maniacs enjoy going cinemas." "But they don't need to go there anymore because of television." "It's not a real substitute... but that's all the better!" "Because cinema doesn't have remote control." "The introduction of television destroyed entertainment." "It also destroyed the sitting room." "Even in a positive sense." "It destroyed conversation, and the destruction of conversation." "It destroyed the analysis of language... and of counter-language." "When a film breaks, I remember in my village... all the spectators protest!" "To the projectionist:" ""Hurry up!"" "What the fuck would they be watching?" "I don't know." "The only event that took place, was the breaking of the film." "I know it's a subconscious thing..." "They picked on the projectionist." "Because he's the author, the real creator." "I'm not speaking as..." "a classical actor." "But it makes me feel I'm in the land of the dead, and I've always been a dead man:" "A living dead man, a restless dead man... like certain very young pharaohs." "The "maestro" belongs with Thomas Mann, I believe." "Someone wrote we either die young or we come "maestros"." "But there are also master craftsmen... master blacksmiths... master shipwright." "That's what a real "maestro" is." "There are master turners etc." "And if we want to say "maestro", from "Magister", that's fine!" "You can't turn into nothing what's already nothing.﻿﻿"