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

Robert Bresson
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

Robert Bresson
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
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

Robert Bresson
In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.