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
I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
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.
Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.
There's no such thing as an anti-war film,
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.
Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.
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.
Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.