I know one thing: to make something hot, it must be done coolly. Your approach must be cool for the result to be hot. This "coldness" I've been accused of is a completely arbitrary judgment, because I've seen people deeply moved by my films. I believe it's not by trying to imitate life and using actors pretending to live that we can get emotion.

Robert Bresson
from Cinema: "Travelling" (Frederic Rossif, 1967)