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

Quote by Robert Bresson

Topics: Television Quotes

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.

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,...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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...

Do or do not... there is no try.

Do or do not... there is no try.

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon...

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon...

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

I don't care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or...

I don't care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or...

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's...

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's...

The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.

The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.

If the people in horror movies listened to me they would probably still be alive.

If the people in horror movies listened to me they would probably still be alive.

It's a fine motion picture up to the point where God finishes and the script...

It's a fine motion picture up to the point where God finishes and the script...

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...