Francois Truffaut Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

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

  Francois Truffaut

  Waste, Film, Critics

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Book, Three, Records

• 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

  Travel, Hippie, Adventure

• 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.

  Francois Truffaut

  Agony, Joy, Cinema

• When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

  Francois Truffaut

  Want, Film, Great Film

• Film lovers are sick people.

  Francois Truffaut

  People, Sick, Lovers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Francois Truffaut

  Paris, Film, Liberation

• 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

  Friends, Numbers, Directors

• There's no such thing as an anti-war film.

  Francois Truffaut

  War, Anti War, Film

• 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.

  Francois Truffaut

  Lying, Misunderstood, Directors

• 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.

  Francois Truffaut

  Beautiful, Light, Theatre

• I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.

  Francois Truffaut

  Film, Poet

• 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.

  Francois Truffaut

  Movie, Film, Boat

  Interview in Peter Graham's, The New Wave, 1968.

• 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.

  Francois Truffaut

  Want, Directors, Film

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

  Francois Truffaut

  Falling In Love, War, Cinema

• Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.

  Francois Truffaut

  Expression, Ideas, Film

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