Robert Bresson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

#Real #Flower #Order

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

#Inspiring #Photography #Creative

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

#Inspirational #Funny #Life

“The future of cinematography belongs to a new race of young solitaries who will shoot films by putting their last penny into it and not let themselves be taken in by the material routines of the trade.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Taken #Race #Lasts

“The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Oneself #Direct

“The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear a noise at night, instantly you imagine its cause. The sound of a train whistle conjures up the whole station. The eye can perceive only what is presented to it.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Eye #Night #Profound

“Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Ideas #People #Important

“Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Laughing #Reputation #Bad Reputation

“A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Editing #Actors #Pieces

“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

#Film #Made #Passing

“Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create”
-- Robert Bresson

#Order #Two #Use

“Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Intuition #Done #Ears

“Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Distance #Dark #Light

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

#Beautiful #Obscene

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

#Old Things #Novelty #Surround

“Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Art #Art Is #Hostility

“To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.”
-- Robert Bresson

#New Relationship #Ties #Persons

“The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Originality

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

#School #People #Looks

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

#Writing #Shining #Ordinary

“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.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Real #Order #Actors

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

#Eye #Two #Body

“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Together

“A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Expected

“The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Numbers #Faculty #Resources

“Be the first to see what you see as you see it.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Firsts

“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.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Eye #Two #Silence

“Practice the precept: find without seeking”
-- Robert Bresson

#Practice

“Unbalance so as to re-balance.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Balance

“It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.”
-- Robert Bresson

#Art #Form