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.
Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
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Unknown
Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did...
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Jim Morrison
The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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Alain De Botton
When everything gets answered, it's fake.
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Sean Penn
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Orson Welles
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.
