The art comes first or the message doesn’t come at all. The message comes from me. I am a religious person (Roman Catholic). I am, I suppose, in a very, very minor way, something of a mystic and when you read my material, I think it comes through.
“I have never thought about the audience… It seems to me that when I write something, I cast myself as a witness to what I’m doing. And I try to feel, to experience the emotions — both my own, in making the thing, and the spectator’s, in viewing what I’ve made.”
Robert Bresson