Claude Lelouch Quotes
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Appearance is valued too much in our society.
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I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.
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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.
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Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.
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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.
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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.
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The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.
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Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.
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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.
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I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end.
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The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.
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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.
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Cinema is dominated by stars you like from the get go.
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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.
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Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.
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The last film is always the most important.
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Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.
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People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.
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