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Francois Truffaut [1932-1984] French
Rank: 101
Director, Film director


François Roland Truffaut was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave.

Movies, Funny, Humor, Morning, Success, Time, Women



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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. Funny, Humor, Success, Time
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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.
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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.
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I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
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Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
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I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early. Morning, Movies
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I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
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Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
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Film lovers are sick people. Movies
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The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
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Is the cinema more important than life?
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In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs. Women
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Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
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I have always preferred the reflect of the life to life itself.
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What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
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The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.
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During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
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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.
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I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
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At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.
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I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
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