Francois Truffaut
Francois Truffaut
François Roland Truffautwas a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. Truffaut's film The 400 Blows came to be a defining film of the French New Wave movement. He also directed such classics as Shoot the Piano Player, Jules et...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth6 February 1932
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
Francois Truffaut quotes about
I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.
There's no such thing as an anti-war film,
Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.
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.
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.
I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.