Francois Truffaut Quotes


"Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings."
- Francois Truffaut
(Related: Life)

"I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself."
- Francois Truffaut
(Related: Life, Reflection)

"I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job."
- Francois Truffaut
(Related: Women, Impression, Job)

"In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs."
- Francois Truffaut
(Related: Men, Women, Love, professionals)

"Is the cinema more important than life?"
- Francois Truffaut
(Related: Life, Cinema)

"Taste is a result of a thousand distastes."
- Francois Truffaut
(Related: Result, Taste)

"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
(Related: Confession, Film, Tomorrow)

"The film of tomorrow will be an act of love."
- Francois Truffaut
(Related: Love, Act, Film, Tomorrow, Will)

"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
(Related: Adventure, Artists, Film, Tomorrow, Will)

"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
(Related: Funny, Humor, Success, Time, Melancholy)

"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
(Related: Actor, Lying)

"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
(Related: Film, Friends, Tomorrow, Will)