Truffaut Quotes
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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
During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
— Francois Truffaut
I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
— 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
Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
— Catherine Deneuve
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
Film lovers are sick people.
— 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
You knew what was playing at Film Forum, and you corrected anyone who lumped Godard and Truffaut together.
— Stephanie Danler
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
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
Truffaut loved Hitchcock.
— Noah Baumbach
There's no such thing as an anti-war film,
— Francois Truffaut