Music Sound Quotes by Francois Truffaut

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

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

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

— Francois Truffaut

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

— Francois Truffaut

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

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

— Francois Truffaut

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

“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

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

— Francois Truffaut

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

— Francois Truffaut

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

— Francois Truffaut

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

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

— Francois Truffaut

I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.

— Francois Truffaut

I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to…

— Francois Truffaut