"What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation". Truffaut frequented Henri Langlois's Cinémathèque Française, where he was exposed to countless foreign films, becoming familiar with American cinema and directors such as John Ford, Howard Hawks and Nicholas Ray, as well as British director Alfred Hitchcock.
"What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation" Truffaut frequented Henri Langlois's Cinémathèque Française where he was exposed to countless foreign films becoming familiar with American cinema and directors such as John Ford Howard Hawks and Nicholas Ray as well as British director Alfred Hitchcock