Luc Besson Quotes - Page 2

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

  Luc Besson

  Tired, Shooting, Littles

  "Luc Besson: Why I couldn't give up making films". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• 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 really have to wait for Avatar and to suddenly think oh okay, maybe we can think of it. But before Avatar, just forget it.

  Luc Besson

  Artist, Thinking, Waiting

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• 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.

  Luc Besson

  Goal, Would Be, Lucky

  "Luc Besson: Why I couldn't give up making films". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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

  Luc Besson

  Artist, Levels, Surprise

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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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.

  Luc Besson

  Humble, Four, Film

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• 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 kind of strong. So if I take the camera and I lock myself, you think that you're on a crane.

  Luc Besson

  Strong, Thinking, Giving

  "Sundance Interview: Luc Besson and Rie Rasmussen of Angel-A". Interview, www.firstshowing.net. February 6, 2007.

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• 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.

  Luc Besson

  Crazy, Actors, Four

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• When Cara [Delevingne] and Dane [DeHaan] arrived, I told their agent, "They need to know all this." I gave them the 600 pages. I said, "You have to learn everything. You're a cop. You need to know the names." I don't want him, when he meets an alien to go, "Whoa" like this. I want him to know if this guy is peaceful.

  Luc Besson

  Names, Guy, Peaceful

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• I wrote the entire history of Alpha because the space station was around for 500 years. I have 30 pages on the history of Alpha. Every ten years what happens. They took control and what happened. Every 80 years, they have to change the communication system because it doesn't work anymore. Some aliens come with new technology, and suddenly you can change the electric system. We wrote the entire story [for Valerian]

  Luc Besson

  Communication, Technology, Years

  "Interview: Luc Besson Reveals The Secrets Behind That Stunning ‘Valerian’ Trailer". Interview With Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. November 10, 2016.

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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.

  Luc Besson

  Stars, Real, Numbers

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• 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.

  Luc Besson

  Would Be, Causes, Serious

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• For example, in your house, you have the heater on the ground itself. Here, it's the gravity. No matter where you are, that's where the gravity is coming from. It's almost like a carpet that you put down. If you're on the other side, it doesn't matter to us because we're still walking on the ground. Actually, at the beginning of the film [Valerian], we see when they install the gravity system.

  Luc Besson

  House, Example, Matter

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• 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.

  Luc Besson

  People, Kind, Percent

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• 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].

  Luc Besson

  Country, Government, People

  "Interview: Luc Besson Reveals The Secrets Behind That Stunning ‘Valerian’ Trailer". Interview With Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. November 10, 2016.

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• I saw Cara Delevingne like five, six times. And I was never talking about the film [Valerian]. And then at the end, I say okay, let's do some test. She says yeah, yeah, good. So I took her in the room, and I test her for like six hours non-stop. Exercise, exercise, exercise for six hours. It was actually funny. And then I knew at the end of the six hours.

  Luc Besson

  Exercise, Talking, Tests

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• If we wanted to make it the way I imagined I knew that we would have to wake up earlier and start very early. So we prep like crazy. And the competition you have is like Avatar, you have Star Wars, you have all the big Marvel stuff. So if you want to come in the race, you know, don't be pretentious.

  Luc Besson

  Stars, Crazy, War

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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