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Claude Lelouch Biography

Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (French: [ləluʃ]; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer.

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

Failure, Loser, Real, Times, Win, Winning

The last film is always the most important.

Film, Important, Lasts

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

Cinema, Dominated, Like, Stars

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

America, Fabulous, People, President, Pretentious

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.

Damnably, Fact, Lying, Perfect, Want

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

Cinema, Creates, Millions, Needs, People, Useful

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

Beginning Middle And End, Film, Like, Middle, Sometimes, Start

Appearance is valued too much in our society.

Appearance, Our Society, Society, Too Much, Valued

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.

Film, Films, Read, Stories, Thrillers, Viewers

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.

Crime, Everyone, Killing, Killing Someone, Perfect, Suicide

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

Curiosity, People, Sometimes, Street, Ten

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

Ends, Film, Make, One Day, Viewer

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

Film, Like, Million, Millions, One In A Million, Spermatozoa

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

Film, Films, Funny, Half, Terrible, Would Be

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

Failure, Low Points, Lows, Time, University

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.

Attention, Beginning, Credit, Depressurizing, Firsts, Onscreen

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

Chief, Humanity, Love, Love Story, Stories

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

Character, Painful, Perfect