Quotes by Francois Truffaut

Francois Truffaut

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.

Boat

Film

Movie

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They’re obliged to overstate their own importance.

Directors

Lying

Misunderstood

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

Design

Humility

Men

Film lovers are sick people.

Lovers

People

Sick

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.

Directors

Film

Want

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.

Agony

Cinema

Joy

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I’d be a novelist.

Novelists

Writing

I’d skip school regularly to see movies – even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

Morning

School

Theater

I’ve always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

Cleaning

Jobs

Real

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Funny

Funny Love

Women

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Agony

Auteur Theory

Beautiful

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Book

Bores

Cinema

Cleaning

Critics

Design

Directors

Film

Forgiving

Funny

Funny Love

Good And Bad

Great Film

Human Condition

Humility

Humor

Imagination

Important

Jobs

Joy

Light

Lovers

Lying

Men

Misunderstood

Morning

Movie

Novelists

People

Political

Real

Records

School

Sick

Theater

Theatre

Thinking

Three

Want

Waste

Women

Wonderful

Writing

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Quotes by Francois Truffaut

Francois Truffaut

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.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They’re obliged to overstate their own importance.

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

Film lovers are sick people.

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.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I’d be a novelist.

I’d skip school regularly to see movies – even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

I’ve always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

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