Pickpocket

“I guess I'm going to have to take Pickpocket because I bought this when it came out and I watched it so many times that it's all scratched up now and there's a great thing of Paul Schrader talking about the movie.”

“Pickpocket. Is this Bresson? Let’s see. Yes., she gets it again. When I tell you the amount of brain damage on this thing, it really is something, but the movies, I guess, I got in the bones as a youth, so they stuck there.”

“Pickpocket, of course. Bresson... You know, Schrader's always got this on his mind, and I guess I do too.”

“I just saw Pickpocket and Bresson. Bresson is really interesting because he's very progressive in his acting because there will always be acting ways of acting that are more fashionable for the time you live in. He believed that all our actions are mechanical and you don't really choose what you do. His actors are really special, they're very open because they are not doing very much.”

“I want to get all the Bresson. I have them in every version that exists: VHS, DVD, now I'm collecting Blu-ray.”

“Pickpocket. I guess in this little room that you call a closet is the history of world cinema and if it isn't in here it will be someday.”

“Pickpocket è stato un mio amore di gioventù, sempre molto ammirato Bresson e in particolare questo film, un film di breve durata però un capolavoro assoluto.”

“Ouais, Pickpocket. Allez, Pickpocket. Je sais pas, pour la gestuelle, je trouve que c'est un film dans lequel j'ai souvenir de... C'est toujours pareil, c'est, j'allais dire chorégraphique, mais c'est un peu la chorégraphie du cinéma quoi, de moments notamment quand ils volent les portefeuilles dans les trains quoi. Quelque chose de très chorégraphique. Ouais, ça reste un essentiel du cinéma français.”

“[Translated] Bresson's Pickpocket. You could say this film is my teacher. My first film, Xiao Wu, is also about a Pickpocket. Two films about pickpockets. But the Pickpocket in my film is not as elegant as this one. He is very elegant.”