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Robert Bresson
French
Director
About the author
In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
Robert Bresson,
French
Director
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
Robert Bresson,
French
Director
#Old
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.
Robert Bresson,
French
Director
#Will
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
Robert Bresson,
French
Director
Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
Robert Bresson,
French
Director
#Eyes
#Body
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 on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
Robert Bresson,
French
Director
#Life
#Film
#First
#Flowers
#Living
#Order
#Water
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
Robert Bresson,
French
Director
#Word
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.
Robert Bresson,
French
Director
#Inspiration
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
Robert Bresson,
French
Director
#People
#Television
#School
#Hearing
#Cinema