Francois Truffaut Quotes

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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…
• I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.
• 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,…
• Is the cinema more important than life?
• Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
• There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors
• When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.
• Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
• 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…
• 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…
• There's no such thing as an anti-war film,
• 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…
• 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…
• We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
• 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…
• 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…
• At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.
• During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
• I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
• I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

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