Louis Malle Quotes

#1. You see the world much better through a camera

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

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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#10. Well, Fellini ... there is always Fellini.

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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