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

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

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

- Francois Truffaut

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

- 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

Is the cinema more important than life?

- Francois Truffaut

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 ligh…

- Francois Truffaut

Film lovers are sick people.

- Francois Truffaut

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 se…

- Francois Truffaut