Louis Malle
Louis Malle
Louis Marie Mallewas a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. His film Le Monde du silence won the Palme d'Or and Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1956. He was also nominated multiple times for Academy Awards later in his career. Malle is one of the few directors to have won the Golden Lion multiple times...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 October 1932
CountryFrance
dust years long
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.
keys stories elbows
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.
stories scripts difficult
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.
wells
Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.
destroyed scene tone
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.