Bresson is present. Bresson's remarks proceed from the same stratosphere as does his invaluable little book Notes on Cinematography. He is hardly ignorant of the facts of the film world, including finances, but those facts seem to have had much the same relation to his work as his bodily functions. Without them, he couldn't live, but he doesn't quite see them as his reason for living. His aesthetics are clear.
Precision is vigorous.
When I am working poorly, I am impre cise. Precision is another form of poetry. A voice treated like a sound effect seems to give the screen an extra dimension. People who experimented with 3-D cinema were bar king up the wrong tree. The third dimension is sound.