A balanced outlook…

A film is something intimate like a letter, but it is also two hundred million old francs invested by different persons.

I don’t despise money, I just don’t love it, but the idea of making others lose it is unbearable to me.

I love my work enough to believe it interesting, not enough to believe it indispensable or beyond reproach.

– François Truffaut

Has any director ever articulated a more balanced outlook on film financing than Truffaut?

From: L’Avant-Scène Cinéma, December 14, 1971

Truffaut, François. Truffaut by Truffaut. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc, 1985. pp129