Robert Bresson

Film director

1901 – 1999

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Who was Robert Bresson?

Robert Bresson is a screenwriter and film director.

Famous Quotes:

  • When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.
  • One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
  • Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
  • The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.
  • In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
  • Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
  • An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

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Born
Sep 25, 1901
Bromont-Lamothe
Also known as
  • R. Bresson
  • Bresson
  • Robert Fernand Bresson
Parents
Spouses
Religion
  • Catholicism
Nationality
  • France
Profession
Education
  • Lycée Lakanal
Died
Dec 18, 1999
Paris

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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