Robert Bresson was a French film director known for his minimalist style and profound understanding of the art of cinema. His films are characterized by their deep philosophical nature and formal innovation, which have had a profound impact on the film industry.
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“The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure.”
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“Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.”
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“Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.”
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“Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.”
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“When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.”
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“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
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“Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.”
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“Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.”
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“Practice the precept: find without seeking”
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“Be the first to see what you see as you see it.”
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“Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.”
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“Unbalance so as to re-balance.”
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“It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.”
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“The crude real will not by itself yield truth.”
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“Let nothing be changed and all be different.”
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“Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.”
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“Empty the pond to get the fish.”
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“Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.”
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“Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.”
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“The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.”
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“A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.”
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“In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.”
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“An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.”
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“The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.”
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“The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.”
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“Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph