Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson was an acclaimed French film director. Known for a spiritual and ascetic style, Bresson contributed notably to the art of cinema; his non-professional actors, ellipses, and sparse use of scoring have led his works to be regarded as preeminent examples of minimalist film...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth25 September 1901
CityBromont-Lamothe, France
CountryFrance
eye two body
Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
old-things novelty ifs
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
beautiful nudity obscene
In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
impossible should
Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.
expected ifs seems
A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.
numbers faculty resources
The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.
eye two silence
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.
firsts
Be the first to see what you see as you see it.
intuition done ears
Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.
different changed
Let nothing be changed and all be different.
unexpected provoking
Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.
spontaneity instant freshness
Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.
new-relationship ties persons
To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.
listen magazines people school
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.