Quotes & anectdotes from
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.

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.

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

Film lovers are sick people.