Quotes About François Truffaut

François Truffaut contended that critics were themselves blocked directors, as he had been when he was a critic.

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience.

'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this picture eschews that Continental obsession with small stories, set in quaint towns filled with pockmarked folk doing their banal things.

I'm an unstable psychotic individual with perverted tendencies" -Juvenile Delinquent @Les Quatre Cents Coups

Suspense is simply the dramatization of a film's narrative, or if you will, the most intense presentation possible of dramatic situations.

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

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

I always felt that with an Antoine Doinel film, Truffaut was taking a vacation, that Francois could relax when making a Doinel film. All of the language came to him very easily. 'The 400 Blows,' I felt, was a collage of all his childhood experiences. Every time he felt an Antoine Doinel film was necessary, he'd make one.