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.
– Francois Truffaut
Film lovers are sick people.
– Francois Truffaut
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
– Francois Truffaut
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.
– Francois Truffaut
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
– 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'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.