I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional – about the music, about the sound. Francois Truffaut Read Quote
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 Read Quote
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation. Francois Truffaut Read Quote
During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema. Francois Truffaut Read Quote
I’ve always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job. Francois Truffaut Read Quote
I’d skip school regularly to see movies – even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early. Francois Truffaut Read Quote
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings. Francois Truffaut Read Quote
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 Read Quote