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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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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

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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. – Robert Bresson

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If you cant believe a little in what you see on the screen, its not worth wasting your time on cinema. – Serge Daney

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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

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