Francois Truffaut Quotes

Francois Truffaut — French Director born on February 06, 1932, died on October 21, 1984

François Roland Truffaut was 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 Jim, The Wild Child, Two English Girls, Day for Night and The Woman Next Door... (wikipedia)

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

Film lovers are sick people.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.