Claude Lelouch Quotes

• The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.

  Claude Lelouch

  Humanity, Stories, Love Story

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• The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.

  Claude Lelouch

  Real, Failure, Winning

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• If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.

  Claude Lelouch

  Lying, Perfect, Want

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• I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.

  Claude Lelouch

  Beginning Middle And End, Sometimes, Film

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• Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.

  Claude Lelouch

  Film, One In A Million, Millions

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• The last film is always the most important.

  Claude Lelouch

  Important, Lasts, Film

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• Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.

  Claude Lelouch

  Lows, University, Low Points

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• You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.

  Claude Lelouch

  Firsts, Attention, Credit

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• Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

  Claude Lelouch

  Character, Perfect, Painful

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• I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.

  Claude Lelouch

  People, Curiosity, Sometimes

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• I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.

  Claude Lelouch

  Stories, Film, Thrillers

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• Appearance is valued too much in our society.

  Claude Lelouch

  Our Society, Too Much, Appearance

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• It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

  Claude Lelouch

  Would Be, Half, Film

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• Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

  Claude Lelouch

  People, Needs, Cinema

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• People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.

  Claude Lelouch

  America, People, President

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• Cinema is dominated by stars you like from the get go.

  Claude Lelouch

  Stars, Cinema

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• The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life has thought of killing someone.

  Claude Lelouch

  Suicide, Killing Someone, Perfect

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• I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end.

  Claude Lelouch

  One Day, Film, Ends

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