Quote by Robert Bresson
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear

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. – Robert Bresson

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When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best – that is inspiration. – Robert Bresson

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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. – Robert Bresson

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Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you cant teach old fleas new dogs. – Federico Fellini

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesnt. – Jean-Luc Godard

I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. – Frank Capra

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless — and absolutely essential. – William Goldman

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