1907-, French Film Director
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
Robert Bresson – [Novelty]
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
Robert Bresson – [Media]
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 – [Cinema]
In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
Robert Bresson – [Nudity]
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
Robert Bresson – [Creativity]
Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
Robert Bresson – [Models and Modeling]
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 – [Cinema]
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
Robert Bresson – [Acting and Actors]
The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.
Robert Bresson – [Originality]
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best — that is inspiration.
Robert Bresson – [Inspiration]