Latest Luc Besson Quotes from Interviews

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• You know, money will never save anyone. Compassion can save someone, love can save someone, money will never save anyone. And as long as the entire society will put money first... Money should be like third or fourth or fifth, I'm not saying lets get rid of money, but how can we put money as number one? As the only value, like if you are rich, you're famous you go VIP, why? It's just insane, the way we've transformed the society.

  Luc Besson

  Compassion, Long, Insane

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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

  Luc Besson

  Thinking, Driven

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.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

• 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

• My concern 99% is about the storytelling, the emotion and all this. I never think about the format of anything until way far in the process and when we arrive to the fabrication of the thing then we start to say, "Okay right, what is the best thing we can do." I choose the car before to choose the color.

  Luc Besson

  Thinking, Car, Emotion

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• That's the storyboard that we have in the beginning [of Valerian]. It's an easy shot. It's just a spaceship coming in. That's the first layout. On the first layout, we see the timing of the shot and the speed. It starts to get some shadows, and we see that everything is moving in the back.

  Luc Besson

  Moving, Shadow, Firsts

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• We talked a lot with the musician. And for now there are few options, and I give him few weeks to come and surprise me with something. I don't want to start and say, okay here is what I want. Because maybe he has an idea that is better than mine.

  Luc Besson

  Ideas, Giving, Musician

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• I'm a big Star Wars fan.

  Luc Besson

  Stars, War, Fans

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• What a director is looking for is someone who will follow you and no matter what. And if you ask for blue, he's gonna try blue. And if you say, give me a piece of red with it, and they try. And you don't mind so much if it's difficult to get the blue and the red together. As long as they try. And as long as they give everything they can to give you what you want. That's what I'm looking for.

  Luc Besson

  Blue, Long, Giving

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• 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

• 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

• 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