Francois Truffaut Quotes

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

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• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Dream
  • Society
  • First

• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • Car
  • Sports
  • Driving

• Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Story
  • Joys
  • Pains

• When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • Hand

• It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Thought
  • Personality
  • Voice

• Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Way
  • Myself
  • Theater

• The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Country
  • Gun

• To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Art
  • Movie
  • You

• There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Nothing
  • More

• I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • People
  • Mind
  • Support

• Being talked about like a package - I feel like that all the time.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Package

• The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Business
  • Team
  • Transition

• Obviously, not playing a game before playoffs is something that happened, but especially going into the playoffs, you try to feel yourself out, where you're at, and then get right into game tempo and jump right in and play where you were before the injury.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Yourself
  • Jump

• The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Time
  • Country
  • Real

• You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Love
  • You
  • Sacrifice

• You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Words
  • Moment

• We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Mind
  • Real

• I don't like inherited wealth.

  

  Albert Gubay

• I have carefully weighed the virtues and the faults of the Filipino and I have come to the conclusion that he is worth dying for.

  

  Benigno Aquino Jr.
  • Conclusion
  • Faults
  • Virtues

• I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Night

• Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Writing
  • Culture
  • Knowledge

• 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
  • Theatre