Luc Besson

Be humble and say okay, all right, I have to prep myself. So everybody prepped, and we finished the film [Valerian ]…

— Luc Besson

I try to follow my instinct as a moviegoer and I do the thing I would love to see it at a…

— Luc Besson

If we wanted to make it the way I imagined I knew that we would have to wake up earlier and start…

— Luc Besson

I would rather stop too soon than too late.

— Luc Besson

I wanted to do something that was entertaining - but with a catch.

— Luc Besson

Cara [Delevingne] I wanted to be sure that she would be involved. 'Cause she didn't do a lot of films before I…

— Luc Besson

I have like 10 actors and 100 aliens in the film [Valerian]. And they come from the four corners of the universe.…

— Luc Besson

We have [in Valerian] a bible that's 600 pages. There are five pages on each alien and where they come from. Even…

— Luc Besson

My concern 99% is about the storytelling, the emotion and all this. I never think about the format of anything until way…

— Luc Besson

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the…

— Luc Besson

When I got the camera on the shoulder, they give me a nickname. They call me 'the tripod' because I'm kind of…

— Luc Besson

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,…

— Luc Besson

I don't want to show kids that I am smoking.

— Luc Besson

“Don't look at Jaques as if he was a human being, he comes from another planet.”

— Luc Besson

My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists [in Valerian] who participated at every level.

— Luc Besson

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

— Luc Besson

We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.

— Luc Besson

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

When Cara [Delevingne] and Dane [DeHaan] arrived, I told their agent, "They need to know all this." I gave them the 600…

— Luc Besson

Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around…

— Luc Besson

What a director is looking for is someone who will follow you and no matter what. And if you ask for blue,…

— Luc Besson

We talked a lot with the musician. And for now there are few options, and I give him few weeks to come…

— Luc Besson

For example, in your house, you have the heater on the ground itself. Here, it's the gravity. No matter where you are,…

— Luc Besson

I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.

— Luc Besson

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