I did The Fifth Element and [Jean-Claude] Mezieres, the artist of Valerian; he was working on Fifth Element. And he's actually the one who say, why don't you do Valerian? And I said because we can't make it. And you… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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![“Be humble and say okay, all right, I have to prep myself. So everybody prepped, and we finished the film [Valerian ] four days before the end.” quote by Luc Besson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b77/luc-besson-14754_be-humble_be-humble-and-say-okay-all-right-i-have_41840.jpg)
![“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, so I didn't know if she was serious and so I push her a bit.” quote by Luc Besson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/707/luc-besson-14754_bits_cara-delevingne-i-wanted-to-be-sure-that_260192.jpg)
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![“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 you can check on the map. On the star map. It's real numbers.” quote by Luc Besson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bc2/luc-besson-14754_addresses_we-have-in-valerian-a-bible-that-s-600-p_293549.jpg)
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