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“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.”
Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.13, New York Review of Books
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“If we want spiritual development, the practice of patience is essential.”
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“Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.”
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“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
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“I found it atrocious and downright infuriating to learn that one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.”
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“I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.”
Source : "A life in Vogue: Hamish Bowles". Interview with Wendy Donahue, www.chicagotribune.com. May 16, 2014. 
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“Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.”
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“It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people.. catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.”
Source : "The Club, the Yoke, and the Leash: What We Can Learn From the Way a Culture Treats Animals". Ms. magazine, Vol. 12, No. 2, August 1983.
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“Mercy is stronger than your sword.”
Source : P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2014). “The House of Night Novellas, 4-Book Collection”, p.119, St. Martin's Griffin
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“Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it; but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests; they don't confess all their sins; they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact.”
