Francois Truffaut Quotes

In my opinion, life is more important than show business.

Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.

Life is more important than work.

Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Life is very important to Americans.

Acting's fun, but life's more important.

Life for me outweighs the game of basketball.

It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary.

I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.

I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

I love films, I love the way they make me feel.

I will admit that I often spend weekends after each 'House of Cards' season is released binge-watching the show for hours. But I watch it because it is entertaining, not because it reminds me of my day-to-day.

There's a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is really about forgetting about your life, and art is about remembering your life.

I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it's art you can use day to day. I've never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning.

I think life is the most important thing and you have to live that first and then you're art comes second.

Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the morale of those who hear it.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own.

Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.

The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.

I believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?