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

- Louis Malle

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

- Louis Malle

You see the world much better through a camera.

- Louis Malle

Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.

- 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 dial…

- 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

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

- Louis Malle

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

- 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 wil…

- Louis Malle