Robert Bresson Quotes About Filmmaking

Quotes about: Filmmaking

• 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

• 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.

  Robert Bresson

  Eye, Cutting, Sound

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.29, 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.

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