Robert Bresson Quotes

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

Films, Using, Appear

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
Robert Bresson

Beautiful, Obscene

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

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
Robert Bresson

Put, Place, Word

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

Life, Real, Living

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
Robert Bresson

Old, Becomes, Detach

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
Robert Bresson

School, Listen, Television

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

Might, Seen, Perhaps

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
Robert Bresson

Two, Eyes, Body

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Biography

Nationality: French

Born: September 25, 1907

Died: December 18, 1999

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