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The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!
Robert Bresson
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Robert Bresson
Age: 98 †
Born: 1901
Born: September 25
Died: 1999
Died: December 18
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Film Director
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Puy-de-Dome
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Hands
Shoulders
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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
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Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
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Unbalance so as to re-balance.
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