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.
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
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
There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors - Francois Truffaut
There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors
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
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.
Is the cinema more important than life? - Francois Truffaut
Is the cinema more important than life?
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
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…
Taste is a result of a thousand distastes. - Francois Truffaut
Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film. - Francois Truffaut
When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.
Film lovers are sick people. - Francois Truffaut
Film lovers are sick people.
We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore. - Francois Truffaut
We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
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