Francois Truffaut Quotes

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• 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

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

  Francois Truffaut

  Reflection, Reflecting

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• There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

  Francois Truffaut

  Directors, Auteur Theory, Good And Bad

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• 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

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• 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

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• Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

  Francois Truffaut

  Taste, Results, Thousand

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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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.

  Francois Truffaut

  Travel, Hippie, Adventure

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• Life has more imagination than we do.

  Francois Truffaut

  Imagination

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• In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

  Francois Truffaut

  Funny, Funny Love, Women

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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.

  Francois Truffaut

  Dog, Falling In Love, Lying

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• Film lovers are sick people.

  Francois Truffaut

  People, Sick, Lovers

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

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• But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.

  Francois Truffaut

  Book, Love Life, Opposites

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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.

  Francois Truffaut

  Funny, Humor, Wonderful

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• The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

  Francois Truffaut

  Men, Thinking, Political

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• 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.

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• Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

  Francois Truffaut

  Crazy, Interesting, Fiction

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• We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.

  Francois Truffaut

  Forgiving, Human Condition, Bores

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• Is the cinema more important than life?

  Francois Truffaut

  Important, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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

  Francois Truffaut

  Misunderstood, Whole Life, Hitchcock

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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.

  Francois Truffaut

  Friends, Numbers, Directors

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• 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

  Two, Giving, Secret

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• I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.

  Francois Truffaut

  Film, Poet

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• 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.

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