Quotes by Francois Truffaut

“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.”

“Film lovers are sick people.”

“Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.”

“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.”

“purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.”

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, its just wonderful.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.