Francois Truffaut

I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.

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.

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

I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.

To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds - talents that are contradictory.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

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.

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

Is the cinema more important than life?