Robert Bresson Quotes

Robert Bresson — French Director born on September 25, 1907, died on December 18, 1999

Robert Bresson was an acclaimed French film director. Known for a spiritual and ascetic style, he contributed notably to the art of film, and particularly the French New Wave. Bresson is considered to be of paramount importance to minimalist film, as most of his work featured non-professional actors, little use of music or scoring, and ellipsis, in which events important to the narrative are not visually depicted. He is arguably, along with Jean-Luc Godard, the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir. Godard himself once wrote, "Robert Bresson is French cinema, as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is German music.".. (wikipedia)

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.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

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