Francois Truffaut Quotes

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Francois Truffaut

Profession : Director

Birth : February 6, 1932

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Francois Truffaut

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

Francois Truffaut

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Francois Truffaut

The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.

Francois Truffaut

Is the cinema more important than life?

Francois Truffaut

To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds - talents that are contradictory.

Francois Truffaut

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Francois Truffaut

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

Francois Truffaut

I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.

Francois Truffaut

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

Francois Truffaut

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

Francois Truffaut

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

Francois Truffaut

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

Francois Truffaut

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

Francois Truffaut

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

Francois Truffaut

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

Francois Truffaut

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

Francois Truffaut

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

Francois Truffaut

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

Francois Truffaut

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

Francois Truffaut