"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."

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Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.13, New York Review of Books

Robert Bresson

#Real Quotes #Flower Quotes #Order Quotes

“Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.”
“Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all the new Testament of the abolishing of the Judicial law, so far as it did concern the punishing of sins against the Moral law, of which Heresy and seducing of souls is one, and a great one. Once God did reveal his will for punishing those sins by such and such punishments. He who will hold that the Christian Magistrate is not bound to inflict such punishments for such sins, is bound to prove that those former laws of God are abolished, and to shew some scripture for it.”
“Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature”
“Large scale collective bargaining . . . is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of conflicts in terms of power, or deadlock and stoppage, usually injuring outside people more than the immediate parties to the dispute.”
“That was awesome. I wasn't expecting it and when I got the call I got nervous for a second. But I was just really excited.”
“I have always had a problem with my weight.”
“dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected.”
“Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough”

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