A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.
Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so. - Robert Bresson
Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.
- Robert Bresson
Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness. - Robert Bresson
Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.
Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible. - Robert Bresson
Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.
Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head. - Robert Bresson
Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.
Let nothing be changed and all be different. - Robert Bresson
Let nothing be changed and all be different.
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. - Robert Bresson
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.
Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle. - Robert Bresson
Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.
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
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 …
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
Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and still…
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