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 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 of Rear Window and Vertigo , or through North by Northwest , may assume his prestige has always been recognized, but this is far from being the case. In the fifties and sixties, Hitchcock was at… — François Truffaut Copy Share
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
