Francois Truffaut Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by 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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#21ac0b2b

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#2be7da1b

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#55eec11b

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#7d5f0d6b

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#15979aa7

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#052d50d6

I have always preferred the reflect of the life to life itself.
~Francois Truffaut


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#b95b813a

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#978507c6

The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.
~Francois Truffaut


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#1e23cbd5

Film lovers are sick people.
~Francois Truffaut


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#7f1a56de

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
~Francois Truffaut


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#439ba0b6

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#50758048

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
~Francois Truffaut


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#69c0ca2f

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#284f95d1

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#ccd8e9b9

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
~Francois Truffaut


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#c57bad96

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#ca4cbdca

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#40f1490b

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#dab11f39

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#063c6fa9

Is the cinema more important than life?
~Francois Truffaut


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/francois-truffaut-quotes/#04a16184

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