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.
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
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.
Taste is a result of a thousand distastes. - Francois Truffaut
Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
Film lovers are sick people. - Francois Truffaut
Film lovers are sick people.
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…
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
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.
Is the cinema more important than life? - Francois Truffaut
Is the cinema more important than life?
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
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…
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