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
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
I have always preferred the reflect of the life to life itself.
The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.
I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.
Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
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.
We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
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.
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.