25/08/2019

Excerpts from Robert Bresson's Notes on the Cinematograph. 

'Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone 10 times in your head.'

'Build your film on white, on silence and on stillness.' 

'The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!...How many useless and encumbering words then disappear...'

The influence of Bresson's notes has seeped beyond how I think about film and now into how I think about living a life.