I had fallen in love with the camera, with technique, with beautiful shots, with experimentation for its own sake… It was a totally intellectual film, and therefore less than human.
“You have to know exactly what you want in terms of aesthetics, and do what you need to do to realize it. The image you have in your mind, you have to see it in advance, literally see it on the screen (understanding that there will be a distinction, even a total difference between what you see and what you end up with), and this image — you have to make it exactly the way you desire it, the way you see it when you close your eyes.”
Robert Bresson