Robert Bresson quotes

Robert Bresson was a renowned French film director and screenwriter, celebrated for his minimalist style and spiritual themes. His work deeply influenced the language of cinema through his use of non-professional actors and unique narrative techniques. He is considered a master of austere filmmaking and continues to inspire directors worldwide. Here are 11 of his quotes:

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

Robert Bresson

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

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

Robert Bresson

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

Robert Bresson

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

Robert Bresson

Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.

Robert Bresson

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

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

Robert Bresson

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

Robert Bresson