Attitude Towards Other Filmmakers
Truffaut expressed his admiration for filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg. He once called German New Wave filmmaker Werner Herzog "the most important film director alive".
In 1973, Jean-Luc Godard accused Truffaut of making a movie that was a "lie", and Truffaut replied with a 20-page letter in which he accused Godard of being a radical-chic hypocrite, a man who believed everyone to be "equal" in theory only. The two never saw each other again.
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