Robert Bresson Quotes

"An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it."
- Robert Bresson
(Related: Old)

"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
(Related: Will)

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

"Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body."
- Robert Bresson
(Related: Body, Eyes)

"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
(Related: Life, Film, First, Flowers, Living, Order, Water)

"The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine."
- Robert Bresson
(Related: Word)

"When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration."
- Robert Bresson
(Related: Inspiration)

"Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing."
- Robert Bresson
(Related: People, Cinema, Hearing, School, Television)