Louis Malle Quotes
Louis Malle Quotes
- 1
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.
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- 2
Just because the movie is about incest does not make it autobiographical. Yes, I have a mother, but that does not make me unique.
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- 3
Suddenly this idea came to me for a film about incest. It was almost a daydream. I wrote out 60 or 70 pages in a few days. I showed them to friends, got a warm reaction, decided to make the film.
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- 4
The Oedipus complex is like a joke. It takes years to discover that there is a dream ideal, an initiating mother, in our subconscious.
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- 5
Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.
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- 6
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.
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- 7
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.
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