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
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.
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.
Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
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 light from the screen reflected upon them.
I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.
There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors
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.
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 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 secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.
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.