Notes on the Cinematographer Quotes

“Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“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 onto a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create”
― Robert Bresson , Notes on the Cinematographer

“be sure of having used to the full all that is communicated by immobility and silence.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“One recognizes the true by its efficacy, by its power.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“Not beautiful photography, not beautiful images, but necessary images and photography.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“Traduire le vent invisible par l'eau qu'il sculpte en passant.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“السينما الناطقة ألّفت الصمت”
― روبير بريسون, مدونات حول السينماتوغراف

“Shooting. Put oneself into a state of intense ignorance and curiosity, and yet see things in advance.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematograph

“There must, at a certain point, be a transformation. If not, there is no art.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“L'oeil superficiel, l'oreille profonde et inventive. Le sifflement d'une locomotive imprime en nous la vision de toute une gare.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“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.[3]”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematograph

“The truth of cinematography cannot be the truth of theatre, not the truth of the novel, nor the truth of painting. (What the cinematographer captures with his or her own resources cannot be what the theatre, the novel, painting capture with theirs).”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematograph

“Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden. •”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematograph

“Moque-toi d'une mauvaise réputation. Crains une bonne que tu ne pourrais pas soutenir.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“Ton public n'est ni le public des livres, ni celui des spectacles, ni celui des expositions, ni celui des concerts. Tu n'as à satisfaire ni le goût littéraire, ni le théâtral, ni le pictural, ni le musical.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“بربرية الدبلجة الساذجة. أصوات لا حقيقة لها، غير مطابقة لحركة الشفاه. مخالفة لإيقاع الرئتين و القلب. أصوات "أخطأت الفم".-”
― روبير بريسون, مدونات حول السينماتوغراف

“يعلو فيلمي حين أرتجل. ينخفض فيلمي حين أنفّذ”
― روبير بريسون, مدونات حول السينماتوغراف

“الأفكار:إخفاؤها، برهافة، تشي أن العثور عليها ممكن. أهمّ الأفكار أكثرها احتجاباً”
― روبير بريسون, مدونات حول السينماتوغراف

“تصوير فيلم: في اللامتوقع
ما تتوقعه أنت سرّا.”
― روبير بريسون, مدونات حول السينماتوغراف

“The number of films that are patched up with music! People flood a film with music. They are preventing us from seeing that there is nothing in those images.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“A whole made of good images can be detestable.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematograph

“An image must be transformed by contact with other images as is a colour by contact with other colours. A blue is not the same blue beside a green, a yellow, a red. No art without transformation.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematograph