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
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best – that is inspiration. – Robert Bresson
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. – Robert Bresson
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion. – Raymond Chandler