Robert Bresson Quotes

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.

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.

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

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way.Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.

Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.