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I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

~Francois Truffaut

Topics: Early Even Morning Movies Opened Regularly School See Skip Small Theaters

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I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

~Francois Truffaut

Topics: All Day Busy Day Else Enough Long Prefer Someone Work You

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If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.

~Francois Truffaut

Topics: About Books Cinema Filming Films Free Free Time Leave Paris Some Time Watching

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I may find myself changing my notions about what I want to do right in the middle of a film. And on days when I'm feeling merry, I shoot merry scenes, and on gloomy days, I shoot gloomy ones.

~Francois Truffaut

Topics: About Changing Days Feeling Film Find Gloomy May Merry Middle Myself Notions Right Scenes Shoot Want

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I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.

~Francois Truffaut

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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.

~Francois Truffaut

Topics: Almost Contradictions Contradictory Different Different Kinds Forced Kinds Many Must Surrounded Talents You

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Director

Born: February 6th, 1932

Died: October 21st, 1984

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