It is in its pure form that an art hits hard. Robert Bresson More Quotes by Robert Bresson More Quotes From Robert Bresson The true is inimitable, the false untransformable. Robert Bresson originality Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness. Robert Bresson freshness instant spontaneity Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain. Robert Bresson bad-reputation reputation laughing Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. Robert Bresson media people school Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create Robert Bresson use two order Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. Robert Bresson cinematography sound writing Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form. Robert Bresson form art A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form. Robert Bresson pieces actors editing Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle. Robert Bresson battle military art Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen. Robert Bresson art-is unforeseen art A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is. Robert Bresson expected ifs seems Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself. Robert Bresson precision instruments masters An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. Robert Bresson surround old-things novelty 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. Robert Bresson silence eye two Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body. Robert Bresson body eye two Provoke the unexpected. Expect it. Robert Bresson provoking unexpected The crude real will not by itself yield truth. Robert Bresson crude yield real In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene. Robert Bresson nudity beautiful beauty The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows. Robert Bresson faculty resources numbers Let nothing be changed and all be different. Robert Bresson changed different