Quotes from Robert Bresson


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

    Seen | Perhaps | Visible


    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.

    Life | Flowers | Water


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

    Best


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

    Becomes | Surrounds | Detach


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

    Listen | Radio | Television


    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.

    Appear | Films | Using


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

    Beautiful | Obscene


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

    Eyes | Body | Head


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

    Shine | Ordinary | Suddenly


       

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