60 Quotes by Francois Truffaut

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I’d be a novelist.

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

I may find myself changing my notions about what I want to do right in the middle of a film. And on days when I'm feeling merry, I shoot merry scenes, and on gloomy days, I shoot gloomy ones.

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

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.