Top 38 Truffaut Film Quotes
#1. I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.
Jacqueline Bisset
#2. 'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this picture eschews that Continental obsession with small stories, set in quaint towns filled with pockmarked folk doing their banal things.
Seth Shostak
#3. 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
#5. The waves washed you away with their glory and the sun beckoned to you with its light. Your ears heard me calling but you knew it was time for you to say goodbye
K. Weikel
#6. Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
Catherine Deneuve
#7. MRS. ALLONBY. Curious thing, plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are!
LORD ILLINGWORTH. Beautiful women never have time. They are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands.
Oscar Wilde
#8. I think there are too many guns. That's a problem. I'd rather have immigrants than guns.
Myka 9
#9. It's hot on my block, somebody turn the fan on
I've been paid, I'm just tryin to turn my mans on.
Slim Thug
#10. 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.
Francois Truffaut
#11. I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
Jackie DeShannon
#12. 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
#13. I adore Quentin Tarantino. The 'Kill Bill' series is my favorite.
Madison Davenport
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. I was a stage-struck child from about 5 years onward.
Ron Moody
#17. Stop thinking of yourself as the picked-on girl from the Third and act like the person you are now. Today.
Sara Ella
#19. All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.
Francois Truffaut
#20. Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs
Robert A. Heinlein
#21. The films I liked were European films-Fellini, Antonioni, Truffaut.
Tobe Hooper
#22. 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
#24. With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.
Thomas Browne
#25. Here was my epicness, because despite how things turned out, I wouldn't be anywhere else. I wouldn't want anyone else to take care of her. To watch her sleep.
Nyrae Dawn
#26. I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.
Nicolas Roeg
#28. The key to containing this unbalanced gigantism is not establishing ownership limits or enacting state regulations. The key lies in addressing those fundamental disorders within the souls of men that have taken us so far off course.
John Horvat
#29. I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los Angelite, this town has influenced most of my daily style, which is relaxed & easy.
Nadine Velazquez
#30. Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
Francois Truffaut
#31. Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.
Francois Truffaut
#32. When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.
Francois Truffaut
#33. Today, 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; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse.
Francois Truffaut
#34. My New Year's style resolution is to buy and wear more clothing that is handmade by artisans or eco-friendly.
Lauren Bush
#37. 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
#38. You knew what was playing at Film Forum, and you corrected anyone who lumped Godard and Truffaut together.
Stephanie Danler
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