You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen.… — Claude Lelouch Copy Share Image
The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life… — Claude Lelouch Copy Share Image
People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America. — Claude Lelouch Copy Share Image
It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success. — Claude Lelouch Copy Share Image
I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end. — Claude Lelouch Copy Share Image
Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function. — Claude Lelouch Copy Share Image
I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes. — Claude Lelouch Copy Share Image
Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself. — Claude Lelouch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity. — Claude Lelouch Copy Share Image
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… — Claude Lelouch Copy Share Image
