"I am often asked at what point in……" — Francois Truffaut
"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, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films."
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Francois Truffaut
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37 Quotes by Francois Truffaut
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The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting…
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I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.
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Is the cinema more important than life?
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Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
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There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors
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When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the…
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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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The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to…
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The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world…
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There's no such thing as an anti-war film,
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All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're…
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When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny…
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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