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Robert Bresson (September 25, 1901December 18, 1999) was a French film director well known for his mastery of minimalist film-making. He has influenced a number of other film-makers, including Jim Jarmusch and Paul Schrader, whose book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (ISBN 0306803356) includes a detailed critical analysis..

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

Bresson, Robert on inspiration
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"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."

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

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

Bresson, Robert on novelty
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"In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene."

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"The true is inimitable, the false untransformable."

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

Bresson, Robert on creativity
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