Robert Bresson
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Quotes (7)
“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.”
DirectingCinematographySource: goodreads filmmaking, goodreads cinematography“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.”
Directing#directing#cinematographySource: goodreads filmmaking“Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.”
Directing#cinematography#creativitySource: goodreads filmmaking“Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.”
CinematographySource: goodreads cinematography“Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.”
Cinema#cinematography#screenwritingSource: goodreads cinema“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”
Cinema#cinematography#camera#actingSource: goodreads cinema“Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing”
CinemaSource: goodreads cinema
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