It’s important to remember that the result is the screen, the silver screen on which we project shadows. The result isn’t performers acting out a story that is being filmed. Similarly, the result for a painter isn’t the landscape that inspires him. It’s a canvas with paint on it.
- Robert Bresson
Vigor comes from precision. Precision is vigorous. When I am working poorly, I am imprecise. Precision is another form of poetry.
- Robert Bresson
Not beautiful photography, not beautiful images, but necessary images, and photography.
- Robert Bresson
A sigh, a silence, a word, a sentence, a din, a hand, the whole of your model, his face, in repose, in movement, in profile, full face, an immense view, a restricted space…Each thing exactly in its place: your only resources.
- Robert Bresson
Images and sounds like people who make acquaintance on a journey and afterwards can not separate.
- Robert Bresson
The future of cinema is to a new race of young solitaires who will shoot films by putting their last cent into it and not let themselves be taken in by the material routines of the trade.
- Robert Bresson
Master precision. Be a precision instrument myself.
- Robert Bresson
A film is the typical kind of creation that claims a style. It needs an author, a writing…What the director has in sight, is an effect to produce or a series of effects. If he is conscientious, his preliminary work will consist precisely of going back from the effect to the cause. Starting from what he wants to obtain, the emotion of the audience, he looks for the best combinations to create that emotion.
- Robert Bresson