To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds - talents that are contradictory. — 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
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
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
I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share
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
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share
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
“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
Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share
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
I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share
I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share
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 Copy Share
