Louis Malle Quotes

France, Film Director
October 30, 1932 – November, 23, 1995.

Louis Marie Malle (French: [mal]; 30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. His film Le Monde du silence won the Palme d'Or in 1956 and the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957, although he was not credited at the ceremony with the award instead being presented to the film's co-director Jacques Cousteau. Later in his career he was nominated multiple times for Academy Awards. Malle is also one of the few directors to have won the Golden Lion multiple times.

Also known as Screenwriter, Producer

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
- Work
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
- Movie
- Boy
- Professional

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
- True
Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.

Louis Malle