Louis Malle

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

— Louis Malle

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting…

— Louis Malle

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not,…

— Louis Malle

If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?

— Louis Malle

Memory is not frozen, it's very much alive, it moves, it changes.

— Louis Malle

I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

— Louis Malle

You see the world much better through a camera.

— Louis Malle

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

— Louis Malle

Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.

— Louis Malle

I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I…

— Louis Malle

“We poets have no need for drugs to attain the borderline between life and death.”

— Louis Malle

Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200…

— Louis Malle