Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.

- Robert Bresson

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

- Robert Bresson

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

- Robert Bresson

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

- Robert Bresson

Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.

- Robert Bresson

Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.

- Robert Bresson

Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

- Robert Bresson

Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and still…

- 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 …

- Robert Bresson