Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I may find myself changing my notions about what I want to do right in the middle of a film. And on… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around,… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
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… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, the work of Alfred Hitchcock is admired all over the world. Young people who are just discovering his art through the current rerelease… — François Truffaut Copy Share Image
Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
