Truffaut Films Quotes & Sayings

That's why baseball is more like life than other games. Sometimes I feel like that's all I do in life, keep track of my errors. — Michael Chabon

I warmly recommend to you the films of poets. — Francois Truffaut

It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor. — Ben Affleck

To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love. — Claude Debussy

Prosperity is good,
happiness is better,
and health is the best. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are. — Dane Cook

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema. — Francois Truffaut

The investment game is getting more and more competitive. — Charlie Munger

In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead of going to class. The experience of encountering films then is one of my greatest memories. Before that I'd never paid any attention to directors, but there I was taking a crash course in Ozu, Kurosawa, Naruse, Truffaut, Renoir, Fellini. Because I've always been naturally a more introspective person, I was more interested in becoming a screenwriter than a director. — Hirokazu Koreeda

Throughout history, the characteristic feature of the nation state is its monopoly of violence. — Matt Ridley

We can help our nation quite a bit if we refrain from getting into our respective corners and throwing hand grenades at each other, and instead try to understand the other's viewpoint, reject the stifling of political correctness, and engage in intelligent civil discussion. — Ben Carson

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation. — Francois Truffaut

The films I liked were European films-Fellini, Antonioni, Truffaut. — Tobe Hooper

Today, I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse. — Francois Truffaut

Intuition, if you are fashion designer is really the key to everything. I just really have a feeling it's the right moment in time to create a new business model. Obviously I have facts and figures that could back that up. It isn't a gamble; it's a calculated risk. — Monita Rajpal

I constantly remind myself that there are terrible movies out there. I try to watch them, some of them, to give myself an understanding of what not to do. — Taika Waititi

I believe that living life with a definiteness of purpose, with having a central focus, is essential to success. — Cory Booker

That's one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing's real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejection - none of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But it's not much help to Truffaut. — Woody Allen

The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least the false prudery of certain circles. The first prerequisite for even the moral right to combat these things is the facilitation of earlier marriage for the coming generation. — Adolf Hitler

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films. — Francois Truffaut

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything - to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It was necessary because she needed to do it. This is what made it necessary. — Don DeLillo

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die. — Francois Truffaut