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, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. – Robert Bresson

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The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they dont smell. The food is unreal, it doesnt taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set, built up in the desert. – Ethel Barrymore

Curiosity doesnt matter any more. These days people dont want to be transported to emotional territories where they dont know how to react. – Hector Babenko

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen. – Federico Fellini

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A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion. – H.L. Mencken

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Im the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. – Herbert Hoover

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