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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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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka

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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:
  1. The 400 Blows (1959)
  2. Jules and Jim (1962)
  3. Day for Night (1973)
  4. Stolen Kisses (1968)
  5. The Wild Child (1970)

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