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 the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie. — 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
