Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive.… — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of… — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye… — 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
