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After an extended absence owed to music video production, Opinions on Filmmaking* is back and its sister blog, Paused Motion, should return soon.

*which seems more and more like Robert Bresson's Opinions on Filmmaking, but that's besides the point.

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CAMERON: [Why do you show] the doves which land on the gauze roof of the pavilion [in The Trail of Joan of Arc]?

BRESSON: There is no symbolism in this. I don't like symbolism. It is only to show that life is going on.

Robert Bresson

from an interview with Ian Cameron (1962)

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CAMERON: What do you expect the audience to bring to your films?

BRESSON: Not their brains, but their capacity for feeling.

Robert Bresson

from an interview with Ian Cameron (1962)