Quotes from Luc Besson

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

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.

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.

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

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

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 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.

Si seulement il avait un peu de temps. [...] Le temps aussi de bien comprendre le mot amour. Un mot beaucoup trop gros pour lui. Tellement gros qu'il ne sait pas par quel bout le prendre.

Johanna: What's it feel like when you dive? Jacques: It's a feeling of slipping without falling. The hardest thing is when you're at the bottom. Johanna: Why? Jacques: 'Cause you have to find a good reason to come back up... and I have a hard time finding one.

Don't look at Jaques as if he was a human being, he comes from another planet.

We cut and sell the apple tree's branches and then are shocked there's no fruit.

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.

I'm always attracted by people who are lost in their time. I think it helps us.

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

I would rather stop too soon than too late.

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

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].

I'm a big Star Wars fan.