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About: Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are. -- Robert Bresson

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Henri-Georges Clouzot.

henri-georges clouzot director

fuckyeahdirectors:

Francois Ozon

francois ozon director

queerliness:

Agnes Varda

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agnes varda director

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François Truffaut - Jean Luc Godard

françois truffaut jean-luc godard director candid

maejudia:

Sandrine Bonnaire and Agnès Varda in the set of Sans Toit ni Loi, 1985.

Agnès Varda Sandrine Bonnaire actress director candid

chagalov:

Jean Cocteau filming Testament of Orpheus, Nice, 1959 -by Lucien Clergue

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Jean Cocteau director candid

“We are constantly watching ourselves and aware of the fact that society is always watching us, but the difficulty lies in the attempt to see ourselves in a different way than we are envisaged by society. If you can’t love yourself, you can’t love anybody else.” —Catherine Breillat (via in-severe-cases)

Catherine Breillat director quote

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet director

tehqueenisdead:

François Truffaut

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François Truffaut director

autumndewilde:

MICHEL GONDRY

Michel Gondry director

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Photo by Dana & Stephane Maitec

Agnes Varda photographed for The Financial Times

Agnes Varda director

“‎I’d rather feel a film before understanding it. I’d rather feeling arise before intellect.” —Robert Bresson (via rosetung)

Robert Bresson quote director

“My films are intended as polemical statements against the American ‘barrel down’ cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.” —Michael Haneke (via ashtrayrabbit)

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Michael Haneke director quote

fuckyeahexistentialism:

“…we were both rebels, we hadn’t expressed our rebellion in the same way. I preferred to cover up and lie. Jean-Pierre, on the contrary, seeks to hurt, shock and wants it to be known…Why? Because he’s unruly, while I was sly. Because his excitability requires that things happen to him, and when they don’t occur quickly enough, he provokes them “

Truffaut on Jean-Pierre Léaud

(Remembering François Truffaut , born 79 years ago)

Jean-Pierre Léaud François Truffaut actor director

brandon-brown:

Francois Truffaut
February 6th, 1932 - October 21, 1984

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Francois Truffaut candid director