Anodyne
Monday, November 21, 2005
 
Robert Bresson, in conversation:

"The less the actors know about the film, the more I like it. I only ask them, 'You are sitting here—look at that door.' Then we rehearse that ten times. Then I say, 'When we are there, you say this sentence. Say it as calmly as possible, as mechanically as possible.' In the action, you see, what this girl or this boy has got inside takes place without their knowing it. They say it in a way which is the right way. But French cinema actors are the same actors who work in the theatre, and they've got the same way of pushing words together."
- posted by cjb @ 9:53 AM


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