Quotes by Francois Truffaut

“When humor 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.”

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

“Film lovers are sick people.”

“In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.”

“I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.”

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