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
oneself direct
The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.
originality
The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.
editing actors pieces
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.
old-things novelty ifs
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
numbers faculty resources
The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.
different changed
Let nothing be changed and all be different.
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.