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Robert Bresson
This nOde last updated August 26th, 2002 and is permanently morphing...
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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
Robert Bresson (b. 1907), French film director. Notes on the Cinematographer, "1950-1958: The Real" (1975).

Inspiration

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best- that is inspiration.
Robert Bresson (b. 1907), French film director. Notes on the Cinematographer, "1950-1958: The Real" (1975).

The Media

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
Robert Bresson (b. 1907), French film director. Notes on the Cinematographer, "1950-1958: Exercises" (1975).

Novelty

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
Robert Bresson (b. 1907), French film director. Notes on the Cinematographer, "1950-1958: On Poverty" (1975).

Writing: Scripts and Screenplays

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
Robert Bresson (b. 1907), French film director. Notes on the Cinematographer, "1950-1958: Exercises" (1975).

Cinema

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.
Robert Bresson (b. 1907), French film director. Notes on the Cinematographer, "1950-1958: On Looks" (1975).

• "Dismantle and put together again till one gets intensity."   - Robert Bresson
• track _I Am A Cinematographer_ MP3 by Palace Brothers off of _Days In The Wake_ on Drag City (1994)
• post rock track _Cinematography_ MP3 by Tristeza off of _Spine & Sensory_ on Makoto (1999)

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