Quotes by Francois Truffaut

• Film lovers are sick people.
• Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
• I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
• I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
• In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
• Is the cinema more important than life?
• Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
• The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
• The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.