60 Quotes by Francois Truffaut

Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.

There's no such thing as an anti-war film,

Is the cinema more important than life?

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.