“Be as ignorant of what you are going to catch as is a fisherman of what is at the end of his fishing rod.”
—Bresson
“Why I Am Not Working”
“…all that is planned will be unfulfilled—neither I nor the cinema needs this.”
– Lev Kuleshov (1926)
…in the eyes of the man being whirled about.
“A fight is ensuing: one of the people acting is being flipped over in the heat of the fight – a new point of view: a whirling set decoration…”
-Lev Kuleshov
Postcardism
“Your film’s beauty will not be in the images (postcardism) but in the ineffable that they will disengage” – Robert Bresson