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Category: Robert Bresson

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

Doing, Know, You

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 onto a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

cinematography, film, filmmaking

The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way.Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.

film, filmmaking, impatience

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art’s form.

art, authenticity, film, integrity, truth

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing

advertisements, cinema, media, media-manipulation

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

Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

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

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