Quotations From ROBERT BRESSON

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• 1.

  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 (b. 1907), French filmmaker. Times (London, Nov. 1, 1990).
• 2.

  The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

  Robert Bresson (b. 1907), French film director. "1950-1958: The Real," Notes on the Cinematographer (1975).
• 3.

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

  Robert Bresson (b. 1907), French film director. "1950-1958: The Real," Notes on the Cinematographer (1975).
  
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• 4.

  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 (b. 1907), French film director. "1950-1958: On Looks," Notes on the Cinematographer (1975).
  
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• 5.

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

  Robert Bresson (b. 1907), French film director. "1950-1958: On Automatism," Notes on the Cinematographer (1975).
• 6.

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

  Robert Bresson (b. 1907), French film director. "1950-1958: Exercises," Notes on the Cinematographer (1975).
  
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• 7.

  One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

  Robert Bresson (b. 1907), French film director. "1950-1958: Gestures and Words," Notes on the Cinematographer (1975).
  
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• 8.

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

  Robert Bresson (b. 1907), French film director. "1950-1958: Exercises," Notes on the Cinematographer (1975).
  
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• 9.

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

  Robert Bresson (b. 1907), French film director. "Further Notes 1960-1974," Notes on the Cinematographer (1975).
  
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• 10.

  An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

  Robert Bresson (b. 1907), French film director. "1950-1958: On Poverty," Notes on the Cinematographer (1975).