The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear a noise at night, instantly you imagine its cause. The sound of a train whistle… — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way. Against the tactics of speed, of noise,… — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is. — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form. — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
