Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.
Francois Truffaut
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Francois Truffaut
Age: 52 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 6
Died: 1984
Died: October 21
Actor
Director
Film Actor
Film Critic
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Paris
France
Cannot
Without
Even
Parliament
Men
Mistaken
Thinking
Thinks
World
Indeed
Worse
Political
More quotes by Francois Truffaut
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.
Francois Truffaut
Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.
Francois Truffaut
Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
Francois Truffaut
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
Francois Truffaut
Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
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
Is the cinema more important than life?
Francois Truffaut
During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
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
When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.
Francois Truffaut
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
Francois Truffaut
I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.
Francois Truffaut
I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.
Francois Truffaut
Life has more imagination than we do.
Francois Truffaut
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
Francois Truffaut
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
We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
Francois Truffaut
I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
Francois Truffaut
I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
Francois Truffaut
There's no such thing as an anti-war film.
Francois Truffaut
