Besson Quotes

#1. Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.

Thomas Langmann

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

Luc Besson

#3. 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.

Luc Besson

#4. 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

#5. 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.

Luc Besson

#6. The beauty of the earth is but a breath, and man is but a shadow. What sympathy should a holy preacher have with either?

Charles Dickens

#7. 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

#8. Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

Luc Besson

#9. I wanted to do something that was entertaining - but with a catch.

Luc Besson

#10. I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

Kevin Conroy

#11. And they're right - what could be scarier, stupider, than
staying together? How else could you totally guarantee that you would always have reasons to be terrified?

Rob Sheffield

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

Luc Besson

#13. 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

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

Luc Besson

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

Luc Besson

#16. 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.

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

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#18. I would rather stop too soon than too late.

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#19. There should be a class on sex
education, a real sex-education class.
There should be a class on police brutality. There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class
on why people are hungry. But there are not. There are classes on gym. Physical education. Let's learn volleyball.

Tupac Shakur

#20. As an artist, I do not need to be rich but I do need to be richly supported. I cannot allow my emotional and intellectual life to stagnate or the work will show it. My life will show it.

Julia Cameron

#21. I don't want to show kids that I am smoking.

Luc Besson

#22. 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.

Luc Besson