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
art military battle
Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.
real order actors
For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.
firsts
Be the first to see what you see as you see it.
balance
Unbalance so as to re-balance.
hands useless economy
The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!
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.
spontaneity instant freshness
Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.
art form
Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.
unexpected provoking
Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.
eye two body
Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
ponds empty fishes
Empty the pond to get the fish.
film made passing
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.
instruments masters precision
Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.
together seems
Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.