Claude Lelouch Quotes

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

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

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

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

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#5. 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.

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

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

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#8. Appearance is valued too much in our society.

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

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

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

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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#14. 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.

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

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

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

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