Francois Truffaut Quotes About Film
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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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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.
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Film lovers are sick people.
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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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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.
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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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Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.
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Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
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Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
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When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.
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I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.
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There's no such thing as an anti-war film.
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During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
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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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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.
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What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
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