TWO FROM ROBERT BRESSON
From a television interview:
Q: What did you want people to feel in PICKPOCKET?
A: Rather than having a story I wanted to tell, I wanted people to feel the atmosphere that surrounds a thief, that particular atmosphere that makes people anxious and uncomfortable.
Q: Have you ever met any thieves?
A: I think I've met several, but you don't know until after you've been robbed.
Q: You felt nothing at the time?
A: Yes, I did. I remember one time out in the county, I was in a room with my host and a third person who - we both felt this third person either was going to steal or had already stolen.
Q: What made you feel that?
A: Something very mysterious that I can't put into words, and that's the feeling I wanted to express in the film. That, and the terrible solitude that is a thief's prison.
From NOTES ON THE CINEMATOGRAPHER:
Slow films in which everyone gallops and gesticulates; quick films in which people hardly move.
Q: What did you want people to feel in PICKPOCKET?
A: Rather than having a story I wanted to tell, I wanted people to feel the atmosphere that surrounds a thief, that particular atmosphere that makes people anxious and uncomfortable.
Q: Have you ever met any thieves?
A: I think I've met several, but you don't know until after you've been robbed.
Q: You felt nothing at the time?
A: Yes, I did. I remember one time out in the county, I was in a room with my host and a third person who - we both felt this third person either was going to steal or had already stolen.
Q: What made you feel that?
A: Something very mysterious that I can't put into words, and that's the feeling I wanted to express in the film. That, and the terrible solitude that is a thief's prison.
From NOTES ON THE CINEMATOGRAPHER:
Slow films in which everyone gallops and gesticulates; quick films in which people hardly move.