Robert Bresson quotes

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. (Robert Bresson)
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. View quote
Robert Bresson
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. View quote
Robert Bresson
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. View quote
Robert Bresson
In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene. View quote
Robert Bresson
Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so. View quote
Robert Bresson
Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. View quote
Robert Bresson
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. View quote
Robert Bresson
Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body. View quote
Robert Bresson
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. View quote
Robert Bresson
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. (Robert Bresson)