The Green Room is like a letter written by hand. If you write by hand it will not be perfect, the writing may perhaps be trembly, but it will be you, your writing. The typewriter is something different. I don’t mean any comparison running down actors, because there are Olivettis with marvelous type, Remingotons which have a lot of personality, and Japy portables. Myself, I adore typewriters!

– François Truffaut

Here Truffaut contends and concedes the beauty of both handwriting and typing. A decade or so before word processors appeared on the scene.

Originally captured in an interview by Daniele Heymann and Catherine Laporte, L’Express, March 13, 1978,

Truffaut, François. Truffaut by Truffaut. United States: Abrams, 1987. pg 160