All Robert Bresson Quotes
- 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… Active
- To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as… Create
- The true is inimitable, the false untransformable. False
- Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing. Attention
- The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself. Direct
- For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things… Actors
- Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body. Body
- When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer. Cut
- Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible. Ideally
- Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen. Art
- Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so. Been
- Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. Cinematography
- Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that… Actors
- Practice the precept: find without seeking Find
- 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… Alone
- Be the first to see what you see as you see it. Firsts
- Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head. Ear
- Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. Cinema