Francois Truffaut quotes

François Truffaut was a French film director, screenwriter, and critic, widely regarded as a founder of the French New Wave. His influential films, such as "The 400 Blows" and "Jules and Jim," helped shape modern cinema. He is remembered as an innovative auteur who brought a deeply personal vision to filmmaking. Here are 25 of his quotes:

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs. (Francois Truffaut)

Film lovers are sick people.

Francois Truffaut

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Francois Truffaut

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.

Francois Truffaut

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.

Francois Truffaut

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

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

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

Life has more imagination than we do.

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

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

Is the cinema more important than life?

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

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

Francois Truffaut

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

Francois Truffaut

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

Francois Truffaut

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

Francois Truffaut

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

Francois Truffaut

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

Francois Truffaut

Today, I demand that a film express either theor the. I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse. (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

The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.

Francois Truffaut

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

Francois Truffaut

Airing ones dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.

Francois Truffaut

Francois Truffaut

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Occupation: French Director
Born: February 6, 1932
Died: October 21, 1984
Quotes count: 25
Wikipedia: Francois Truffaut

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