Best Quotes by Francois Truffaut (Top 7)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
  4. Film lovers are sick people.
  5. I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.
  6. Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
  7. I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.