Quotes by Robert Bresson

• In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
• An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
• 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.
• Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
• Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
• 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.
• The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
• When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.
• Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.