Louis Malle Quotes

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.

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

You see the world much better through a camera.

Well, Fellini… there is always Fellini.

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

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

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