Sometimes I see people finish a film and they go, "Yeah, that was good. Where are we going to eat?" — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin. — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film. — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern,… — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
After six, seven films, I started to get a little tired. Shooting takes a lot out of you. — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial. — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
I won't be able to do a film just for bad reasons, for money or for - I just can't. If I… — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear… — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
Loving a film is like falling in love with a woman or with a man like you never expect it. It it's… — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
I try to follow my instinct as a moviegoer and I do the thing I would love to see it at a… — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
What a director is looking for is someone who will follow you and no matter what. And if you ask for blue,… — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
Be humble and say okay, all right, I have to prep myself. So everybody prepped, and we finished the film [Valerian ] four days… — Luc Besson Copy Share
I try to follow my instinct as a moviegoer and I do the thing I would love to see it at a movie. I'm… — Luc Besson Copy Share
If we wanted to make it the way I imagined I knew that we would have to wake up earlier and start very early.… — Luc Besson Copy Share
Cara [Delevingne] I wanted to be sure that she would be involved. 'Cause she didn't do a lot of films before I met her,… — Luc Besson Copy Share
I have like 10 actors and 100 aliens in the film [Valerian]. And they come from the four corners of the universe. Some of… — Luc Besson Copy Share
We have [in Valerian] a bible that's 600 pages. There are five pages on each alien and where they come from. Even the address… — Luc Besson Copy Share
My concern 99% is about the storytelling, the emotion and all this. I never think about the format of anything until way far in… — Luc Besson Copy Share
It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall?… — Luc Besson Copy Share
When I got the camera on the shoulder, they give me a nickname. They call me 'the tripod' because I'm kind of short and… — Luc Besson Copy Share
That's a KORTAN DAHUK. That's the first alien we see in the film [Valerian]. That's another artist. The first one was Chinese, the one… — Luc Besson Copy Share
“Don't look at Jaques as if he was a human being, he comes from another planet.” — Luc Besson Copy Share
My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists [in Valerian] who participated at every level. — Luc Besson Copy Share
