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Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so. — Robert Bresson

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

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle. — Robert Bresson

Practice the precept: find without seeking — Robert Bresson

I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition. — Abbas Kiarostami

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself. — Robert Bresson

To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are. — Robert Bresson

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows. — Robert Bresson

Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing. — Robert Bresson

Let nothing be changed and all be different. — Robert Bresson

Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden. — Robert Bresson

One recognizes the true by its efficacy, by its power. — Robert Bresson

Unbalance so as to re-balance. — Robert Bresson

Create expectations to fulfil them. — Robert Bresson

Empty the pond to get the fish. — Robert Bresson

Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head. — Robert Bresson

Be sure of having used to the full all that is communicated by immobility and silence. — Robert Bresson

Rid myself of the accumulated errors and untruths. Get to know my resources, make sure of them. — Robert Bresson

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

Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that's impossible. — Robert Bresson

The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure. — Robert Bresson

The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders! ... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy! — Robert Bresson

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form. — Robert Bresson

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

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene. — Robert Bresson

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

Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain. — Robert Bresson

Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. — Robert Bresson

Be the first to see what you see as you see it. — Robert Bresson

When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer. — Robert Bresson

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

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. — Robert Bresson

The thing that matters is not what they show me but what they hide from me and, above all, what they do not suspect is in them. — Robert Bresson

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself. — Robert Bresson

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best
that is inspiration. — Robert Bresson

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it. — Robert Bresson

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable. — Robert Bresson

The crude real will not by itself yield truth. — Robert Bresson

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen. — Robert Bresson

It is in its pure form that an art hits hard. — Robert Bresson