Important Quotes by Robert Bresson

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

— Robert Bresson

Unbalance so as to re-balance.

— Robert Bresson

“One recognizes the true by its efficacy, by its power.”

— Robert Bresson

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

— Robert Bresson

A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.

— Robert Bresson

Empty the pond to get the fish.

— Robert Bresson

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

— Robert Bresson

“Create expectations to fulfil them.”

— Robert Bresson

Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.

— Robert Bresson

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are…

— Robert Bresson

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

— Robert Bresson

“The thing that matters is not what they show me but what they hide from me and, above all, what they do not suspect…

— Robert Bresson