Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Claude Lelouch

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French film director Claude Lelouch.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish Family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained critical acclaim for his 1966 romantic melodrama film A Man and A Woman. At the 39th Academy Awards in 1967, A Man and a Woman won Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. Lelouch was also nominated for Best Director. While his films have gained him international recognition since the 1960s, Lelouch's methods and style of film are known for attracting criticism.

French - Film director | Born: October 30, 1937

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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.

Claude Lelouch

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

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 other viewers.

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. 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.

Claude Lelouch

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

Claude Lelouch

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

Claude Lelouch

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

Claude Lelouch

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

Claude Lelouch

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.

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 hard to do.

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

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

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

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

Claude Lelouch

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

Claude Lelouch

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

Claude Lelouch

The last film is always the most important.

Claude Lelouch

Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Claude Lelouch

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