I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
Francois TruffautI 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.
Francois TruffautAll 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.
Francois TruffautBut the cinephile is โฆ a neurotic! (Thatโs not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and itโs because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, โWhen you love life, you go to the movies,โ itโs false! Itโs exactly the opposite: when you donโt love life, or when life doesnโt give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.
Francois Truffaut