Art belongs to the unconscious! One must express oneself! Express oneself directly! Not one’s taste or one’s upbringing, or one’s intelligence knowledge or skill. Not all these acquired characteristics, but that which is inborn, instinctive.
“It seems to me that to be pure a film must, above all, refuse to mingle what is false with what is true. With this single condition, the cinema is a powerful machine. It can crush. I believe it is uniquely suited to painting the nuances of the heart and the soul, but that’s another question which will lead us too far astray.”
Robert Bresson