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

Quote by Robert Bresson

Topics: Television Quotes

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance...

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance...

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

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

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them,...

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them,...

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

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

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

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is...

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is...

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

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

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the...

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the...

I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to...

I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to...

Movies bore me, especially my own.

Movies bore me, especially my own.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to...

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to...

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from...

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from...

Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a...

Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a...

The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for...

The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for...

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail.

Size matters not, ... Look at me. Judge me by size, do you?

Size matters not, ... Look at me. Judge me by size, do you?

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the...

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the...

I steal from every movie ever made.

I steal from every movie ever made.

It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something...

It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something...