Although men flatter ...

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
 Francois Truffaut

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A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.
 Francois Truffaut
The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.
 Francois Truffaut
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.
 Francois Truffaut
But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, When you love life, you go to the movies, it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.
 Francois Truffaut
The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.
 Francois Truffaut