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
Tomorrow, Will, Directed, Thrilling
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.
- Francois Truffaut
Surrounded, Almost, Forced, Contradictory
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
- Francois Truffaut
Me, Paris, Films, Liberation
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
Will, Person, Number, Proportional
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
- Francois Truffaut
Love, Women, Professionals, Women Are
I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.
- Francois Truffaut
Small, Skip, Opened, Theaters
I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.
- Francois Truffaut
Want, Audience, Pavement, Captivated
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
- Francois Truffaut
Loves, Based, His, Misunderstood
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
Made, Same Time, Alternate, 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
Great, Falling, Like, Reminds
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.
- Francois Truffaut
Myself, Middle, May, Gloomy
I have always preferred the reflect of the life to life itself.
- Francois Truffaut
Always, Reflect, Itself, Preferred
I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
- Francois Truffaut
Reflection, Always, Itself, Preferred
At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.
- Francois Truffaut
Critic, Sure, Would, Filmmaker
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
- Francois Truffaut
Thought, Later, Actually, Novelist
If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.
- Francois Truffaut
Some, About, Films, Filming
I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
- Francois Truffaut
Cleaning, Doing, Always, Thankless
Is the cinema more important than life?
- Francois Truffaut
Important, More, Than, Cinema
During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
- Francois Truffaut
Love, Fall, Films, Cinema
I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.
- Francois Truffaut
Music, I Am, More, Instinctive
Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
- Francois Truffaut
Result, Taste, Thousand
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
More, Individual, Like, Confession
I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
- Francois Truffaut
Work, Enough, Prefer, All Day
The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.
- Francois Truffaut
Love, Will, Act, Film
Film lovers are sick people.
- Francois Truffaut
Movies, Sick, Film, Lovers
Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
- Francois Truffaut
Money, Waste, Some, Critics
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