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Francois Roland Truffautwas a French filmmaker, actor, and critic, widely regarded as one of the founders of the cinematic French New Wave. With a career of more than 25 years, he is an icon of the French film industry.
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About the Francois Truffaut
Francois Roland Truffautwas a French filmmaker, actor, and critic, widely regarded as one of the founders of the cinematic French New Wave. With a career of more than 25 years, he is an icon of the French film industry.
Truffaut’s The 400 Blowswas a defining film of the French New Wave movement, and was followed by four sequels: Antoine et Colette (1962), Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970), and Love on the Run (1979). Truffaut’s 1973 film Day for Night earned him critical acclaim and several awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
His other notable films include Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Jules and Jim (1962), The Soft Skin (1964), The Wild Child (1970), Two English Girls (1971), The Last Metro (1980), and The Woman Next Door (1981). He played one of the main roles in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
Truffaut wrote the book Hitchcock/Truffaut (1966), based on his interviews with film director Alfred Hitchcock during the 1960s.
He was married from 1957 until 1964 to Madeleine Morgenstern, in 1968 became engaged to leading actress Claude Jade from three of his films, and lived together with Fanny Ardant, actress in his two last films, until his death.
13 Quotes by Francois Truffaut
- 1.
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
Francois TruffautFrench film director (1932-1984)
- 2.
The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.
Francois TruffautFrench film director (1932-1984)
- 3.
Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
Francois TruffautFrench film director (1932-1984)
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Is the cinema more important than life?
Francois TruffautFrench film director (1932-1984)
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The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.
Francois TruffautFrench film director (1932-1984)
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Film lovers are sick people.
Francois TruffautFrench film director (1932-1984)
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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 TruffautFrench film director (1932-1984)
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Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
Francois TruffautFrench film director (1932-1984)
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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.
Francois TruffautFrench film director (1932-1984)
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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 TruffautFrench film director (1932-1984)
- 11.
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 TruffautFrench film director (1932-1984)
- 12.
I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
Francois TruffautFrench film director (1932-1984)
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The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
Francois TruffautFrench film director (1932-1984)