In all my films there are people who send each other letters, a young girl who writes in her diary. Nor can I move from one place to another without a map. That is simply not done anymore, but it’s in my character: to leave even one person uninformed distresses me. The taste for writing has been pursuing me ever since I concerned myself as a critic with the form of the screenplay. I didn’t think I’d become a filmmaker, but rather, a scriptwriter.

François Truffaut

From: Interview by Anne de Gasperi, Le Quotidien de Paris, May 2, 1975

Truffaut, François. Truffaut by Truffaut. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc, 1985.