When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can. — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows. — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in… — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will… — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words? — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed. — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth. — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed… — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
“We poets have no need for drugs to attain the borderline between life and death.” — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there… — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
