Francois Truffaut

Director

1932-02-06

Quotes by Francois Truffaut

• 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.

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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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• What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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