Francois Truffaut Quotations

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.

Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.

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.