Louis Malle famous quotes

04-29-2025

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

#Memories #Real #Imagination
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

#Dust #Years #Long
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

#Keys #Stories #Elbows
If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?
-- Louis Malle

#Hair
The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.
-- Louis Malle

#Ideas #Emotion
I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.
-- Louis Malle

#Thinking #Opposites #Disturbed
Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.
-- Louis Malle

#Wells
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

#Stories #Scripts #Difficult
You see the world much better through a camera.
-- Louis Malle

#Cameras #World
Memory is not frozen, it's very much alive, it moves, it changes.
-- Louis Malle

#Memories #Moving #Frozen

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