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Life has more imagination than we do. — Francois Truffaut

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

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs — Francois Truffaut

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 mistaken even worse. — Francois Truffaut

Film lovers are sick people. — Francois Truffaut

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema. — Francois Truffaut

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

Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece. — Francois Truffaut

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

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

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox. — Francois Truffaut

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself. — Francois Truffaut

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 under with it. — Francois Truffaut

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting. — Francois Truffaut

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

The film of tomorrow will be an act of love. — Francois Truffaut

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance. — Francois Truffaut

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors — Francois Truffaut

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job. — Francois Truffaut

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. — Francois Truffaut

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. — Francois Truffaut

Is the cinema more important than life? — Francois Truffaut

I warmly recommend to you the films of poets. — Francois Truffaut

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes. — Francois Truffaut

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea. — Francois Truffaut

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

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary. — Francois Truffaut

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

Francois Truffaut was my godfather on 'Sugar Cane Alley.' He believed in me and in that story, and told everyone that it should be made. — Euzhan Palcy

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 anything in between. — Francois Truffaut

There's no such thing as an anti-war film, — Francois Truffaut