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.

Malle worked in both French cinema and Hollywood and he produced both French and English language films. Just as his earlier films such as The Lovers helped popularize French films in the United States My Dinner with Andre was at the forefront of the rise of American independent cinema in the 1980s. S.

He was also nominated multiple times for Academy Awards later in his career. Louis Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was an award-winning French film director screenwriter and producer.