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
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
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. – Robert Bresson
When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But thank God we got to go through the magic of seeing it before we knew how it was done. You were able to get this beautiful, pure, visceral response to something without knowing too much about it. – Tim Burton