“I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film.” ThinkingFilmHonestBeing Honest Author:Luc Besson
“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.” IfsThinkingGivingKindStrongGive MeCamerasShouldersCall MeLocksNicknamesCranesTripods Author:Luc Besson
“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.” ThinkingSaidArtistWaitingForgetElementsOkayFifthForget ItFifth Element Author:Luc Besson
“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.” ThinkingEmotionCarConcernOkayStorytelling Author:Luc Besson
“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.” ThinkingMenFilmFallBlackLove YouLike YouFalling In LoveChineseBeard Author:Luc Besson
“I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.” ThinkingDriven Author:Luc Besson
“I'm always attracted by people who are lost in their time. I think it helps us.” PeopleThinkingHelpingLost Author:Luc Besson
“I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.” ThinkingFilmIntellectualNotionArtistic Author:Luc Besson
