"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."

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Source : "The Films Of Robert Bresson: A Retrospective" by Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. April 18, 2012.

Robert Bresson

#Film Quotes #Made Quotes #Passing Quotes

“Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.”
“Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.”

Source : Quoted in James C. Humes, Speaker's Treasury of Anecdotes About the Famous (1978)
“It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.”
“Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.”
“Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here.”
“If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to keep it hid and not to use it. You are a new people and a new world to me. Are all your kin of like sort? Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardners be in high hounour.”
“We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born into the stories told of each of these.”
“I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.”

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