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.

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.

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

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

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

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

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

What does it matter if the world is bright and sunny, when it's dark and silent right where it matters most?

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

We need the world to put a price on carbon.