I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you’re not busy enough. – Francois Truffaut
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. – Francois Truffaut
At first, I wasn’t sure whether I’d be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that. – Francois Truffaut
I’d skip school regularly to see movies – even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early. – Francois Truffaut
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. – Francois Truffaut
I’ve always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job. – Francois Truffaut
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. – Francois Truffaut
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings. – Francois Truffaut
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation. – Francois Truffaut
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary. – Francois Truffaut
An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal – falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox. – Francois Truffaut
