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I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

Francois Truffaut

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Francois Truffaut
Age: 52 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 6
Died: 1984
Died: October 21
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Film Critic
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Paris
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