Quotes by Francois Truffaut - Page 1

Film lovers are sick people.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Movies
Film
Lovers
People
Sick
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Life has more imagination than we do.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
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Is the cinema more important than life?
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Cinema
Important
Life Important More
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Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Results
Taste
Thousand
Result
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There's no such thing as an anti-war film.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
War
Anti War
Film
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The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.
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Tomorrow
Act
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I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.
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Film
Poet
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In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Funny
Women
Men
Funny Love
Love Men Women
Women Are
Amateur
Love Women Men
Professionals
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Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Dirty
Linen
Masterpiece
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There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Auteur Theory
Directors
Good And Bad
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We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Bores
Forgiving
Human Condition
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I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Reflecting
Reflection
Itself
Preferred
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I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Novelists
Writing
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During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
War
Cinema
Falling In Love
Love War Me
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Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Critics
Film
Waste
Money Day Will
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Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Expression
Film
Ideas
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I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Instinctive
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I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Busy
Enough
Long
All Day
Prefer
Work Enough Long
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What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Film
Flood
Liberation
Paris
Pictures
Switched
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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.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Film
Great Film
Want
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Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Hitchcock
Misunderstood
Whole Life
Based
Loves
Misunderstandings
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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.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Filmmaker
Firsts
Would Be
Critic
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Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Crazy
Fiction
Interesting
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I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Morning
School
Skip
Theater
Opened
Regularly
Theaters
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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 / Film Director
Cinema
Free Time
Filming
Leave
Films
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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 / Film Director
Book
Records
Three
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I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Jobs
Cleaning
Impression
Real
Thankless
Daily
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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.
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Animal
Cat
Dog
Falling In Love
Lying
Moving
Falling
Fox
Reminds
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Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
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Design
Men
Humility
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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 you under with it.
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Movie
Boat
Break
Film
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I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.
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Bewitched
Captivated
Dazed
Pavement
Stunned
Theatre
Constantly
Leaves
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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.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Confession
Individual
Novel
Tomorrow
Appears
Autobiographical
Diary
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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 in anything in between.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Agony
Cinema
Joy
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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 Director
Men
Political
Thinking
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The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Friends
Directors
Numbers
Spectators
Tomorrow
Director
Proportional
Resemble
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When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Funny
Humor
Made
Melancholy
Wonderful
Alternate
Same
Same Things
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To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds - talents that are contradictory.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Different Kinds
Almost
Contradictions
Talents
Forced
Surrounded
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The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Travel
Adventure
Hippie
Shooting
Thrilling
Tomorrow
Camera
Civil
Directed
Servants
Whom
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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 obliged to overstate their own importance.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Directors
Lying
Misunderstood
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The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Beautiful
Light
Theatre
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I may find myself changing my notions about what I want to do right in the middle of a film. And on days when I'm feeling merry, I shoot merry scenes, and on gloomy days, I shoot gloomy ones.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Gloomy
Merry
Notions
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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.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Directors
Film
Want
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I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.
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Giving
Secret
Two
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But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.
Francois Truffaut / Film Director
Book
Love Life
Opposites
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