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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.
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.
It was not about my mother, of course. It was about a kind of idealized fantasy mother. Young boys hypothesize when young.... (more Louis Malle quotes)
| The Films of Louis Malle: A Critical Analysis by Nathan Southern and Jacques Weissgerber | |
| BLUES For A BLACK CAT & OTHER STORIES. Translated by Julia Older. Foreword by Louis Malle. by Boris [1920 - 1959]. Vian | |
| Louis Malle (Reihe Film) |
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