Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude. — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen. — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual. — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the "America" of this myth… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
The people follow what the media say. So if you said that Bruno Dumont is fantastic, it follows that more people would go to… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
The actor already comes with emotions to the scene: fear, the fear of being in front of the camera. It is this fear that… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is why Rousseau… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, because I have changed. If I… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
The landscape is a reflection of the inner life. Since I can't shoot the inner life, all I can shoot is the exterior but… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image