Bresson, Robert quotes
1907 French Film DirectorMake visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
Bresson, Robert
Creativity
My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
Bresson, Robert
Cinema
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.
Bresson, Robert
Cinema
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
Bresson, Robert
Media
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.
Bresson, Robert
Inspiration
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
Bresson, Robert
Novelty
In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
Bresson, Robert
Nudity
The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.
Bresson, Robert
Originality
Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
Bresson, Robert
Models and Modeling
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
Bresson, Robert
Acting and Actors