There are many ways to approach the art and craft of filmmaking, from Tarkovsky to Brett Ratner to your favorite youtube piece. At the risk of being a relativist , I suppose there is no right or wrong way to make a film, to create a film. It just depends on one's taste, and as you know there is no accounting for taste or, in short, there is no such thing as 'normal.' This is just one's man's respect or admiration or adoration of a filmmaker whose films have, and continue, to stay with me.

The Kobenhavn Green Interger Press published a volume of journal entries of the great 'cinematographer' Robert Bresson, aptly titled Notes on the Cinematographer. The filmmaker of Diary of a Country Priest, Lancelot, Joan of Arc, L'Argent, and my favorite Au Hasard Balthazar, jotted down very brief notes on filmmaking through the years of creating projects that are just sublime and invaluable for filmmakers who care.

So.

I bent your ear-or mouse as it were-to say this: Everyday I am going to post one of Bresson's observations for you to ponder and comment on. Mull them over like you would fine claret and let fly. Without further ado, and with all apologies to the copyright holders Green Interger, here is the first one:

"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."- Robert Bresson