Claude Lelouch Quotes
I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end.
Quotes to Explore
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life.
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I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.
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Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.
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I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.
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There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.
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Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
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When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
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I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end.
