Robert Bresson Quotes

"An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it."
-Robert Bresson

"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."
-Robert Bresson

"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 on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."
-Robert Bresson in Movies quotes.

"In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene."
-Robert Bresson

"Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body."
-Robert Bresson

"The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine."
-Robert Bresson

"The true is inimitable, the false untransformable."
-Robert Bresson

"Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing."
-Robert Bresson in Media quotes.