9 Quotes & Sayings By Robert Bresson

Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was a French film director, writer, photographer and composer. He is known for his lyrical and minimalist style. All of his films are short. His most famous works are La Chinoise (Chinatown), L’Argent (Money), Pickpocket, Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (The Diary of a Chambermaid), Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Women on the Bridge) and Le Journal d'un curé de campagne (The Diary of a Country Priest).

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been...
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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 hearing Robert 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