Robert Bresson Quotes

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• When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.
• The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
• Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
• 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.
• 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…
• Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.
• Unbalance so as to re-balance.
• It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.
• The crude real will not by itself yield truth.
• Let nothing be changed and all be different.
• Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.
• Empty the pond to get the fish.
• Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.
• Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.
• The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.
• A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.
• The future of cinematography belongs to a new race of young solitaries who will shoot films by putting their last penny into it and not…
• Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.
• In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
• An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

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