Best 7 quotes of Louis Malle on MyQuotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

You see the world much better through a camera.

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