Claude Lelouch

The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of…

— Claude Lelouch

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

— Claude Lelouch

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

— Claude Lelouch

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

— Claude Lelouch

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

— Claude Lelouch

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

— Claude Lelouch

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

— Claude Lelouch

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

— Claude Lelouch

I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the…

— Claude Lelouch

Appearance is valued too much in our society.

— Claude Lelouch

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

— Claude Lelouch

If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably…

— Claude Lelouch

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

— Claude Lelouch

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

— Claude Lelouch

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

— Claude Lelouch

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

The last film is always the most important.

— Claude Lelouch

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

— Claude Lelouch