Quotes from Louis Malle

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Jazz is my childhood.