French - Director | February 6, 1932 - October 21, 1984
I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
Francois Truffaut
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Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
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The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.
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Film lovers are sick people.
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I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.
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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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Is the cinema more important than life?
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What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
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I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.
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I may find myself changing my notions about what I want to do right in the middle of a film. And on days when I'm feeling merry, I shoot merry scenes, and on gloomy days, I shoot gloomy ones.
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To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds - talents that are contradictory.
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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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