“a character from Rio Bravo acting in a Resnais film”

— Godard’s direction to Michel Piccoli for Contempt.

This is how you open a film.

“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”

— Farewell, My Lovely

“The beauty of an image derives in part from the fact that we never know exactly what we are feeling when we look at it.”

— Jeff Wall

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“Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle”

— Bresson

“I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers”

— Napoleon