Robert Bresson Quotes - Page 2

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

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

Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.

It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.

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.

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

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

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

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

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