Malle Quotes & Sayings

One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead characters in many '70s and '80s films, has a moral ambiguity to him. — Joe Cornish

Louis Malle is maybe one of my favorite directors, but I love Tarantino. — Richard Ayoade

You see the world much better through a camera — Louis Malle

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience. — Brooke Shields

If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution. — Jerry Vlasak

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

Why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? — Salman Rushdie

God's irony: that in order to fight and defeat the threat of terrorism, we shall have to be clear about the principle of justice that allows us to understand what is evil in terrorism. And that principle of justice is the claim of justice that is inherent in every innocent human life. But if that claim was there in the Twin Towers, if it was there on the airplanes that those terrorists attacked, you explain to me why it is not there in the womb! — Alan Keyes

The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless victim. This is well within your power, whatever fate might have dealt you. — Martha Beck

Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them. — Orson Scott Card

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet. — James Taylor

Memory is not frozen, it's very much alive, it moves, it changes. — Louis Malle

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

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I've tried wearing more than one ring on one hand and it doesn't look good. It's overkill, I think. So I think a ring on either hand. Nine times out of ten I'll go for pinky rings, but not always. — Tom Jones

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

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

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

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

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

Well, Fellini ... there is always Fellini. — Louis Malle

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

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

People must be just and fair, starting with what they thought. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer