Notes on the Cinematographer
Robert Bresson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.”
“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 onto a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.”
“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”
“Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create”
“Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.”
“be sure of having used to the full all that is communicated by immobility and silence.”
“Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.”
“Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.”
“Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.”
“The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure.”
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film, authenticity, cinema, cinematography, filmmaking, truth, integrity, success, art
