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“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

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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…

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At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

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

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

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

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I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested…

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“Nowadays, the work of Alfred Hitchcock is admired all over the world. Young people who are just discovering his art through the current rerelease…

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

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

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

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

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I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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