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Film Quotes by Francois Truffaut
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
- Film lovers are sick people.
- What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
- I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in…
- Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
- The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.
- The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
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