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When humour 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.
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Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.
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An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal—falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.
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I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
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All 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.
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I wish my deadly foe, no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.
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Born:
February 6, 1932
Died:
October 21, 1984
(aged 52)
Bio:
François Roland Truffaut was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave.
Known for:
The 400 Blows (1959)
Jules and Jim (1962)
Day for Night (1973)
Stolen Kisses (1968)
The Wild Child (1970)
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