Quotes by Robert Bresson

Robert Bresson

French film director

Lived from: 1901 - 1999

Category: Movie Country: FlagFrance

Born: 25 september 1901 Died: 18 december 1999

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

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  • The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.
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  • An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
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  • Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
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  • 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.
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  • In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
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  • Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
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  • Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.
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What are the most famous quotes from Robert Bresson?

The two most famous quotes from Robert Bresson are:

  • "The true is inimitable, the false untransformable."
  • "An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it."

When did Robert Bresson live?

Robert Bresson was born in 1901 and died in the year 1999.