Francois Truffaut
Francois Truffaut
François Roland Truffautwas a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. Truffaut's film The 400 Blows came to be a defining film of the French New Wave movement. He also directed such classics as Shoot the Piano Player, Jules et...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth6 February 1932
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.
There's no such thing as an anti-war film,
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
Is the cinema more important than life?
During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.
I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.
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.
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.
Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.
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.
Film lovers are sick people.
I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
Life has more imagination than we do.