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Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
Robert Bresson
People
Cinema
Hearing
School
Television
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.
Robert Bresson
Inspiration
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
Robert Bresson
Word
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
Life
Film
First
Flowers
Living
Order
Water
Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
Robert Bresson
Body
Eyes
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
Will
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
Robert Bresson
Old