Francois Truffaut

“To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds - talents that are contradictory.”

“What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.”

“Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.”

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

“At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.”