Aphorisms by the French filmmaker Robert Bresson on the art of film. Bresson's "Notes sur le cinématographe," first published in France in 1975, are a collection of working notes, ideas, and reflections on directing and acting gathered over more than 25 years. These writings reveal Bresson's attitude towards film, his aesthetics, and his understanding of film as a script of images and sounds. Together, these thoughts, expressed with aphoristic brevity and laconic precision, form the passionate plea of a great filmmaker. This is a revised edition of the original German edition from 1980.