Francois Truffaut

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself. ”

Is the cinema more important than life? ”

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings. ”

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. ”

If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films. ”

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

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. ”

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary. ”