Quotes from Robert Bresson

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

I'd rather people feel a film before understanding it.

One recognizes the true by its efficacy, by its power.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

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

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

Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

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

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

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.

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

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