"Allegedly, the story goes like this: Billy Wilder runs into Louis Malle -- this is in the late '50s or early '60s -- and Louis Malle's just made his most expensive film, which cost $2.5 million. And, Billy Wilder asks him what the film is about, and Louis Malle says, 'Well, it's sort of a dream within a dream,' and Billy Wilder says, 'You just lost $2.5 million!'"
["I think predictability has become the rule," Malle once remarked, "and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed."]
Sources
Richard Linklater, Waking Life
