For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.
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.
- 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.
Let nothing be changed and all be different. - Robert Bresson
Let nothing be changed and all be different.
Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle. - Robert Bresson
Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.
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.
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.
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…
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 …
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