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We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
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Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use…
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What are you -- some kind of addict? Is this where you come to...
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I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.
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I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
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If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.
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It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed…
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My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a…
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We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy…
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An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the…
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Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I show the…
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I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's…
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I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down…
— Roger Ebert
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That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about…
— Woody Allen
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There are cinéphiles and cinéphages. Truffaut is a cinéphile. A cinéphage - a film nerd - sits in the front row and…
— Henri Langlois
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I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we…
— Peter Greenaway
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The films I liked were European films-Fellini, Antonioni, Truffaut.
— Tobe Hooper
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known…
— Jackie DeShannon
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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in…
— Bernardo Bertolucci
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Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
— Catherine Deneuve
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I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much…
— Nicolas Roeg
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Truffaut loved Hitchcock.
— Noah Baumbach
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