Claude Lelouch
The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.Collection: Humanity
The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Lying
I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.Collection: Beginning Middle And End
Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.Collection: Film
The last film is always the most important.Collection: Important
Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.Collection: Lows
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.Collection: Firsts
Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.Collection: Character
I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.Collection: People
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.Collection: Stories
Appearance is valued too much in our society.Collection: Our Society
It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.Collection: Would Be
Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.Collection: People
People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.Collection: America
Cinema is dominated by stars you like from the get go.Collection: Stars
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.Collection: Suicide
I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end.Collection: One Day