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 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.
eye two body
Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
order two use
Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create
best
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.
listen magazines people school
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
impossible should
Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.
old-things novelty ifs
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
real yield crude
The crude real will not by itself yield truth.
different changed
Let nothing be changed and all be different.
intuition done ears
Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.
beautiful nudity obscene
In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
numbers faculty resources
The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.
expected ifs seems
A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.
writing sound cinematography
Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.