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, it's just wonderful.

Quote by Francois Truffaut

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Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Is the cinema more important than life?

Is the cinema more important than life?

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal -...

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal -...

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

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

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless,...

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless,...

Film lovers are sick people.

Film lovers are sick people.

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and...

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and...

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but...

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but...

The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.

The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of...

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of...

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.

Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to...

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to...

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and...

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and...

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or...

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or...

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he...

Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he...