Louis Malle Quotes

#1. Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

Brooke Shields

#2. One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead characters in many '70s and '80s films, has a moral ambiguity to him.

Joe Cornish

#3. Louis Malle is maybe one of my favorite directors, but I love Tarantino.

Richard Ayoade

#4. 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

#5. Marriage is not common in Sweden.

Eva Gabrielsson

#6. 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

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

Louis Malle

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

Louis Malle

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

Louis Malle

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

Louis Malle

#11. Jabor finally appeared at the top of the stairs, sparks of flame radiating from his body and igniting the fabric of the house around him. He caught sight of the boy, reached out his hand and stepped forward.
And banged his head nicely on the low-slung attic door.

Jonathan Stroud

#12. My grandmother, whom I adored, and who partly raised me, loved Liberace, and she watched Liberace every afternoon, and when she watched Liberace, she'd get dressed up and put on makeup because I think she thought if she could see Liberace, Liberace could see her.

Alan Furst

#13. Brock 'Slim' Lucas looked at his oldest son, his eyes moved to his youngest son and then they slid to his wife.
And when his eyes hit her shining ones he realized he had not one thing to wish for. Not one. There was nothing he wanted.
He had it all right here.

Kristen Ashley

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

Louis Malle

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

Louis Malle

#16. Men have those God's created guns inbuilt that are 24X7 hours loaded to shoot out.

Deepanshu Saini

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Louis Malle

#20. My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.

Patti Smith

#21. I used to sleep the sleep of someone who knew she was loved. Now, I didn't.

Kristen Ashley

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

Louis Malle