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

Make visible what, without you, might have never been seen.

— Robert Bresson

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.

— Robert Bresson

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

— Robert Bresson

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.

— Robert Bresson

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

— Robert Bresson

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

— Robert Bresson