Luc Besson Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

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

  Luc Besson

  Thinking, Intellectual, Artistic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

• 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.

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

  Luc Besson

  Film, Sci Fi, Ready

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• 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.

  Luc Besson

  Able, Facts, Film

  Interview with Richard Jobson, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2000.

• You know, it's not my film [Valerian], it's really their film. It's very strange. And maybe because it's more when you comes to the Marvel films it's way much more organized and plan, you know, they planned. Okay, we have Thor here, we have this and then we do The Avengers, and then we group. You know, it's much more organized. So maybe there is a little less freedom at the end for the creative people. Where I did the entire opposite. I let them help me, you know. So that's also why maybe they were so involved.

  Luc Besson

  Opposites, People, Creative

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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

  Luc Besson

  Thinking, Honest, Film

  "Director Luc Besson Talks LUCY, a Possible Sequel, His Approach to Female Characters, and More; Says TAKEN 3 Has Nothing to Do with Liam Neeson’s Family". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 23, 2014.

• 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

• 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.

  Luc Besson

  Able, Film, Reason

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

• 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 with the space station. This one is American. Personally, that's my favorite alien. I love him. I love his profile and his face. There is such a sweetness and almost a sadness in his face.

  Luc Besson

  Sadness, I Love Him, Artist

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• 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

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

  Luc Besson

  People, Sometimes, Film

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

• 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

• Loving a film is like falling in love with a woman or with a man like you never expect it. It it's not the one you think you will be in love with, you know. You think always that he will be with a beard, and black, and big and finally he's Chinese and you know it's the same thing. There's something very organic about the film and if you forgot it, if you don't have this seed in it...this organic flavor in it the film doesn't work it's wrong.

  Luc Besson

  Falling In Love, Love You, Men

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

• 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

• 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 like everyone, almost, I go to a movie once a week. I like every kind of film if it’s well made. I’m fine. I’m not a specialist fighting for a genre of film. You just have to follow your instinct.

  Luc Besson

  Fighting, Trying, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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