Film Director who hated acting

Godard wrote "Bresson is French Cinema, as Dostoevsky is the Russian Novel & Mozart is German Music."

Bresson used non-professional actors because "Art is transformation. Acting can only get in the way." "The famous downward glances of his people, their avoidance of eye contact, & the famous Bresson monotone in which all the characters speak in the same rigid, style-less way, are evidences of the very special sensibilities he imposes." (William Bayer)

He would choose his hand-picked cast to suit the type of  characters they had to play & made them eschew any attempt at acting. His directorial style was austere, elliptic & minimalist.

Satyajit Ray writes about Kumar Shahani, who had worked on a film by Bresson. "The legacy of that influence is to be seen in the  girl in the centre of Shahani's "Maya Darpan." She, too, like Bresson's "Mouchette", suffers inwardly & wordlessly. No quarrel with that. But we are concerned with what happens outwardly. And here, I am afraid, Bresson evaporates."

Bresson's other famous films are "Diary of a Country Priest" & "Au hasard Balthazar."