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One of the most influential directors in the history of French cinema, Robert Bresson never strayed from his iconoclastic ways, insisting on the use of nonprofessional actors, shunning the "advances" of Cinerama and CinemaScope (and the work of most of his predecessors and peers) , mincing no words about the damaging influence of capitalism and the studio system on the still-developing - in his view - art of film. Organized chronologically, this collection of interviews and testimonials reveals the development of Bresson's thought over the course of forty years, punctuated by recurring mantras such as "Sound cinema invented silence," "Characters don't make a film; a film makes its characters," "Cinema is a form of writing," and (paraphrased from the Bible) "Every idle word shall be counted.