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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.Robert Bresson
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Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.Robert Bresson
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When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.Robert Bresson
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Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearingRobert Bresson
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Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.Robert Bresson
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The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way. Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.Robert Bresson
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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 onto a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.Robert Bresson
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When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.Robert Bresson