Luc Besson Quotes

Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film.

I'm always attracted by people who are lost in their time. I think it helps us.

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

I won't be able to do a film just for bad reasons, for money or for - I just can't. If I have one more where I feel I can bring you something, I will do it.

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.

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.

I was kind of surprised that, about 99 percent of the people grabbed the thing [in Valerian].You know it's their thing. And I'm very impressed by that.

I have like 10 actors and 100 aliens in the film [Valerian]. And they come from the four corners of the universe. Some of them are liquid. Some of them are just [so visually] crazy.

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.

If you're someone from the government and you meet people from other countries, you want to know who you're dealing with. It's the same for them [in Valerian].

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

After six, seven films, I started to get a little tired. Shooting takes a lot out of you.

I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head.

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

I would rather stop [making movies] too soon than too late.

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

I'm a big Star Wars fan.

Sometimes I see people finish a film and they go, "Yeah, that was good. Where are we going to eat?"

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

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

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

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