Francois Truffaut Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Lying, Misunderstood, Directors

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

  Francois Truffaut

  Humility, Men, Design

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

  Francois Truffaut

  Dirty, Masterpiece, Linen

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• There's no such thing as an anti-war film.

  Francois Truffaut

  War, Anti War, Film

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• 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

  Would Be, Firsts, Filmmaker

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• I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

  Francois Truffaut

  Jobs, Real, Cleaning

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• I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

  Francois Truffaut

  Morning, School, Theater

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

  Francois Truffaut

  Long, Busy, Enough

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• During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

  Francois Truffaut

  Falling In Love, War, Cinema

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• Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.

  Francois Truffaut

  Expression, Ideas, Film

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

  Francois Truffaut

  Paris, Film, Liberation

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

  Francois Truffaut

  Writing, Novelists

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