Francois Truffaut Quotes

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

Life, Reflection, Preferred

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

Women, Love, Men

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

Great, Moving, Dog

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

Women, Job, Daily

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

Tomorrow, Person, Made

Film lovers are sick people.
Francois Truffaut

Movies, Sick, Film

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
Francois Truffaut

Result, Thousand, Taste

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

Funny, Success, Humor

Is the cinema more important than life?
Francois Truffaut

Life, Important, Cinema

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

Life, Around, Whole

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

Sure, Whether, Knew

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

Love, War, Made

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

Writing, Thought, Actually

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

Life, Reflect, Preferred

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

Work, Long, Someone

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

Morning, Movies, School

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

Money, Film, Waste

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

Tomorrow, Personal, Film

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

Love, Tomorrow, Film

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

Tomorrow, Wonderful, Film

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

After, American, Pictures

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Biography

Nationality: French

Born: February 6, 1932

Died: October 21, 1984

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