"Fahrenheit four-five-one is the temperature at which book paper catches fire and starts to burn."

"[to Linda] You spend your whole life in front of that family wall. These books are my family. When did we first meet?…"

"IF François Truffaut were trying to make literature seem dull and the whole hideous practice of book-burning seem no …"

"A woman who bravely reads books is more likely to be socially constructive than one who is hung on TV. And the contra…"

"But it's hard to believe that Mr. Truffaut could be guilty of such poor taste. Poor writing, yes, and dull direction,…"

"Francois Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 (Universal) isn’t a very good movie but the idea—which is rather dumb but in a way…"

"Most books don’t make people think, and print is not in itself a danger to totalitarianism. That is a crotchety littl…"

"Yet even at the science-fiction horror-story level, the movie fails—partly, I think, because Truffaut is too much of …"

"The movie is so listless we have what we should never have in a gimmicky thriller: time to notice inconsistencies. Pe…"

"Oskar Werner – Guy Montag"