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.
The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second
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JeanLuc Godard
Women think in [Douglas] Sirk’s films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It’s something that has to be seen. It’s great to...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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Iain Banks
If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?
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Brigid Pasulka
Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.
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John Cassavetes
More Quotes By Robert Bresson
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing
Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.
