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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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There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.
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François Truffaut

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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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