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Francois Truffaut Quotes

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.

Film lovers are sick people.

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

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

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

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Is the cinema more important than life?

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

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

The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.

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.

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.

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.