Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Louis Malle

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French director Louis Malle.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Louis Marie Malle was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. His film Le Monde du silence won the Palme d'Or in 1956 and the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957, although he was not credited at the ceremony; the award was instead presented to the film's co-director Jacques Cousteau. Later in his career he was nominated multiple times for Academy Awards. Malle is also one of only four directors to have won the Golden Lion twice.

French - Director | October 30, 1932 - November 23, 1995

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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

Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.

Louis Malle

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

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

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 will be nothing left of our work but dust.

Louis Malle

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

Louis Malle

You see the world much better through a camera.

Louis Malle

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

Louis Malle

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

Louis Malle

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

Louis Malle

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