Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "François Truffaut" in English language version.
Yet Truffaut, an atheist, was not stumping for God with these conservative attacks.
One way of understanding Godard's approach is to contrast it with that of François Truffaut, one of his most respected New Wave colleagues. As a self-described atheist, Truffaut took special pleasure in the materiality of cinema, noting that no photographic image can be obtained without real, physical light making direct contact with a real, physical object in the immediate presence of the camera.
