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. While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

#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. You need to change, renew, and rejuvenate yourself. Put your best foot forward in all that you do; you will develop an unmatched passion.

Farshad Asl

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

Louis Malle

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

Louis Malle

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

Louis Malle

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

Louis Malle

#12. There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.

Albert Camus

#13. In a certain respect, in a movie, you inevitably have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs because that's the only practical way to get it done. When you make a record, you can still be an auteur, because you can make a whole record without anyone's help if you want.

D.A. Wallach

#14. Chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.

Arthur C. Clarke

#15. Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. I wanted to show her all of my burdens and have her lift them from me with her clever mind and her elegant compassion.

Sierra Simone

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

Louis Malle

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

Louis Malle

#19. You are not Sirius's only correspondent," said Dumbledore. "I have also been in contact with him ever since he left Hogwarts last year. It was I who suggested the mountainside cave as the safest place for him to stay.

J.K. Rowling

#20. Was he really willing to throw away what we had this easily? How could two people who loved each other so much be communicating so badly? When one of them was psychic, even?

L.A. Weatherly

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Louis Malle

#24. Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#25. Music's power is like love's power: one can feel but never understand it.

Marty Rubin

#26. Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.

Brandon Sanderson

#27. God your love is so precious! You
protect people in the shadow of your
wings. Psalms 36:7

Anonymous

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

Louis Malle