François Truffaut

The Films in My Life

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  • asanisimasalaithas quoted10 years ago
    A lovely time of life—when one cares more about the fate of those we admire than about one’s own.
  • asanisimasalaithas quoted10 years ago
    first step involved seeing lots of movies; secondly, I began to note the name of the director as I left the theater. In the third stage I saw the same films over and over and began making choices as to what I would have done, if I had been the director. At that period of my life, movies acted on me like a drug
  • asanisimasalaithas quoted10 years ago
    I believe a work is good to the degree that it expresses the man who created it.
  • Juan Xulzhas quoted3 years ago
    No question that there are soft spots in Fellini’s film, but however little one may love cinema, there’s more pleasure and profit to be had in that extra “half-hour” than in the whole of the two English films that were shown
  • victoriaernestovnahas quoted6 years ago
    André Bazin, began to publish his sharply critical movie reviews in Cahiers du Cinéma and Arts.
  • Pilar Saavedrahas quoted6 years ago
    When I was a critic, I thought that a successful film had simultaneously to express an idea of the world and an idea of cinema
  • Pilar Saavedrahas quoted6 years ago
    I always agreed with Audiberti: “The most obscure poem is addressed to everybody.”
  • b3497680036has quoted6 years ago
    The same year, under Kurosawa’s influence, Ingmar Bergman shot exactly the same theme (The Virgin Spring) but he set it in fourteenth-century Sweden.
  • Leylahas quoted7 years ago
    Buñuel and Bergman
  • Leylahas quoted7 years ago
    People of the world are so imbued with their own stupidity that they can never believe that one of their own has talent. They appreciate only people of letters who are not of their world.” So Marcel Proust wrote to Mme. Straus.
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