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 MalleIt is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.
Louis MalleIf you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?
Louis MalleWhen 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