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An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

~Robert Bresson

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

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

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The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Director

Born: September 25th, 1907

Died: December 18th, 1999

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