Robert Bresson Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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

  Real, Flower, Order

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.13, New York Review of Books

• 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 let themselves be taken in by the material routines of the trade.

  Robert Bresson

  Taken, Race, Lasts

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.56, New York Review of Books

• 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

  Film, Made, Passing

  "The Films Of Robert Bresson: A Retrospective" by Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. April 18, 2012.

• 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 employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create

  Robert Bresson

  Order, Two, Use

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.10, New York Review of Books

• 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.

  Robert Bresson

  Real, Order, Sound

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Robert Bresson

  Editing, Actors, Pieces

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

  Robert Bresson

  Art, Military, Battle

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.15, New York Review of Books

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