Claude Lelouch famous quotes

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

#Humanity #Stories #Love Story

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

The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.
-- Claude Lelouch

#Real #Failure #Winning

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

The last film is always the most important.
-- Claude Lelouch

#Important #Lasts #Film

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

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

#People #Curiosity #Sometimes

Appearance is valued too much in our society.
-- Claude Lelouch

#Our Society #Too Much #Appearance

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

Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.
-- Claude Lelouch

#Lows #University #Low Points

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

#Film #One In A Million #Millions

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

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

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

#America #People #President

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

#Character #Perfect #Painful

Cinema is dominated by stars you like from the get go.
-- Claude Lelouch

#Stars #Cinema

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

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