Robert Bresson Quotations

Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.

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

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.

Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.

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

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.

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