The 400 Blows

“Is it 400 or 500 Blows? I always forget. Natasha Lyonne had recommended The 400 Blows. I loved it so much. As a parent, as a mom, I felt so much empathy for what kids go through and just being socialized and how much it sucks and how much adults can kind of dampen your joie de vivre.”

“I'm gonna begin with Mr. François Truffaut and The 400 Blows. The title sequence of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is us just riding around the city just shooting the city of Philadelphia with a very handheld loose camera and the opening sequence of 400 Blows you're just riding around Paris with just a very loose handheld camera. It doesn't seem overly thought out, it just seems very alive and almost matter of fact. We must have inadvertently taken that from the best.”

“Yeah The 400 Blows I mean well you know though they've the whole Antoine Doinel collection here you see this...”

“The 400 Blows, a film I've seen ever and ever but which I love. I wrote to Truffaut actually when I was young and he wrote back, he sent me a poster and sent me some stuff back and it was really nice.”

“Oh, The 400 Blows! These two, easy to take. And The 400 Blows breaks my heart.”

“Okay then 400 Blows from Truffaut. I was very fortunate to meet Truffaut through his daughter Laura. I was a student in Paris and I was working on my first movie a screenplay Sugar Cane Alley and Truffaut read the script he gave me some advice and at the end he became my godfather. And when the movie got the Cesar for best first film Truffaut was there in that room because he was getting the Cesar for all his work. He was very sick and that was the last time they saw him in public.”

“One of the greatest rebel movies, in my opinion. This is the rebel dude right here. The 400 Blows by Truffaut. Amazing. Some nouvelle vague, why not?”

“The 400 Blows. This is a kid who feels, like most kids do at that age, misplaced. He leads a life that doesn’t fit into the kids’ lives around him, it doesn’t fit into his parents’ lives, it doesn’t fit into the life in school, it doesn’t fit into the system that tries to press him into a decent citizen, so he escapes from the… I hesitate to say oppression because it’s not oppression, yet there are forces that are against the integrity and a life that we really... Can really gauge.”