What's the source of Truffaut's famous quote that it is impossible to make an anti-war movie?
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16 The earliest reference I could find was referenced in Truffaut: A Biography starting on page 163, 2nd paragraph. This link starts on page 163 and gives the background. On page 164 there is the trope. Truffaut never directly says “impossible to make an anti-war film.“ Rather in describing his desire to make one concerning Algiers, he decides that he cannot because “to show something is to ennoble it.“ https://books.google.com/books?id=a2H0AiDn4XIC&pg=PA163&dq=Truffaut%20and%20militaristic&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WXALU5fsF9WhsQTh94GwCw&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Truffaut%20and%20militaristic&f=false