Robert Bresson

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

Empty the pond to get the fish.

In the nude, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

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.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

The nudity of that feminine body had risen into her face, the body had reabsorbed it, as nature reabsorbs forsaken gardens.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.