Francois Truffaut Quotes
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Film lovers are sick people.
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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.
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I have always preferred the reflect of the life to life itself.
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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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Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
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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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I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
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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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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 have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
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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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I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.
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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.
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I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.
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In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
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If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.
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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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During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
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The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.
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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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What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
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Is the cinema more important than life?
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Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
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I may find myself changing my notions about what I want to do right in the middle of a film. And on days when I'm feeling merry, I shoot merry scenes, and on gloomy days, I shoot gloomy ones.