When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best—that is inspiration.
—Robert Bresson
Topics: Inspirational, Inspiration
The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.
—Robert Bresson
Topics: Innovation, Originality
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
Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
—Robert Bresson
Topics: Fashion
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
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
—Robert Bresson
Topics: Fashion
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
—Robert Bresson
Topics: Acting, Actors
In the nude, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
—Robert Bresson
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
—Robert Bresson
Topics: Media
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
—Robert Bresson
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- Roman Polanski French Film Director
- Jean-luc Godard French-born Swiss Film Director
- Catherine Deneuve French Actor
- David Ogilvy British Advertising Executive
- Nathalie Sarraute French Novelist
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