French Director Quotes

Jean-Luc Godard

François Truffaut

Marguerite Duras

Éric Rohmer

Luc Besson

Robert Bresson

Virginie Despentes

Life was given to us a billion years ago. What have we done with it?

I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen.

Marguerite Duras

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

Jean-Luc Godard

To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.

I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.

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.

François Truffaut

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

The line between seduction and prostitution is very blurred, and deep down, everyone knows it.

Virginie Despentes