Quotes by Robert Bresson

Robert Bresson

A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.

Actors

Editing

Pieces

Be the first to see what you see as you see it.

Firsts

Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

Seems

Together

Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.

Freshness

Instant

Spontaneity

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

Art

Battle

Military

Empty the pond to get the fish.

Empty

Fishes

Ponds

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.

Film

Made

Passing

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 that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.

Order

Real

Sound

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

Art

Art Is

Unforeseen

Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.

Impossible

Should

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Crude

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Direct

Done

Ears

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Editing

Empty

Eye

Film

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Fishes

Freshness

Funny

Hands

Impossible

Inspirational

Inspiring

Instant

Instruments

Intuition

Life

Made

Masters

Military

Nudity

Oneself

Order

Ordinary

Originality

Passing

Photography

Pieces

Ponds

Practice

Precision

Real

Seeking

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Should

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Quotes by Robert Bresson

Robert Bresson

A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.

Be the first to see what you see as you see it.

Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

Empty the pond to get the fish.

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.

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 that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.

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