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the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
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Francois Truffaut Film director

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: France
  • Born: Feb 6, 1932
  • Died: Oct 21, 1984

François Roland Truffaut was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. Truffaut's film The 400 Blows came to be a defining film of the French New Wave movement.

Film lovers are sick people.

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

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

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