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1 " Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so. "
― Robert Bresson , Notes on the Cinematographer
2 " When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration. "
― Robert Bresson
3 " Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing "
4 " Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form. "
5 " The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way.Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence. "
6 " 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. "
7 " Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. "
8 " 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 "
9 " Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden. "
10 " Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle. "
11 " You bore me "
12 " The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. "
13 " Be the first to see what you see as you see it. "
14 " Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head. "
15 " Practice the precept: find without seeking "
16 " 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. "
17 " Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain. "
18 " be sure of having used to the full all that is communicated by immobility and silence. "
19 " Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen. "
20 " It is in its pure form that an art hits hard. "
