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Francois Truffaut
French
Director
Born:
Feb 6
,
1932
Died:
Oct 21
,
1984
About
Film
Life
Me
Tomorrow
Will
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Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
Francois Truffaut
Result
Thousand
Taste
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
Me
Confession
Tomorrow
More
Individual
Like
Diary
Than
Personal
Autobiographical
Even
Novel
Appears
Film
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
Success
Funny
Time
Wonderful
Humor
Made
Melancholy
Alternate
Same
Just
Same Things
Same Time
Things
Is the cinema more important than life?
Francois Truffaut
Life
Cinema
Important
More
Than
During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
Francois Truffaut
Love
War
Me
Cinema
Made
Fall
Films
Saw
Many
I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.
Francois Truffaut
Morning
School
See
Small
Opened
Theaters
Movies
Regularly
Skip
Even
Early
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
Francois Truffaut
Me
Films
Liberation
Paris
Pictures
American
After
Flood
Switched
Film lovers are sick people.
Francois Truffaut
People
Sick
Lovers
Movies
Film
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
Great
You
Animal
Dog
Lying
Cat
Never
He
Reminds
Like
Falling
Moving
Actor
Fox
The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.
Francois Truffaut
Love
Tomorrow
Will
Act
Film
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
Francois Truffaut
Love
Women
Men
Amateur
Women Are
Professionals
Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
Francois Truffaut
Day
Money
Will
Critics
Some
Like
Make
Film
Waste
I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
Francois Truffaut
Work
Day
You
Long
Busy
Enough
Else
All Day
Someone
Prefer
If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.
Francois Truffaut
Time
Cinema
Free
Films
Books
Some
About
Paris
Free Time
Leave
Watching
Filming
I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.
Francois Truffaut
Music
Try
About
More
Instinctive
Sound
Am
Less
Professional
To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds - talents that are contradictory.
Francois Truffaut
You
Different Kinds
Must
Kinds
Almost
Talents
Forced
Surrounded
Contradictions
Contradictory
Different
Many
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