Francois Truffaut quotes:
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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.
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Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
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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.
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I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.
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All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.
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During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
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What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
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I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
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In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
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I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.
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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.
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Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
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There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors
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When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.
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The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.
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I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
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Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
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I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
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Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.
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Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
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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.
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Film lovers are sick people.
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Is the cinema more important than life?
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In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs
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Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
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The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
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I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.
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The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.
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Life has more imagination than we do.
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I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.
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There's no such thing as an anti-war film,
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Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.
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Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.
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I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.
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I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
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A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.
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At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.