Luc 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 don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.

Steven Galloway

#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.

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#4. Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

Francois Truffaut

#5. 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.

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#6. The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#7. 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

#8. Jesus taught that we'll never be satisfied with anything we own, only with Who owns us.

Ken Hutcherson

#9. 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

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

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#11. I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve to make me remember it forever.

Paola Kaufmann

#12. I am a bad man, very bad, but in a different way. I want to ravish you until we're both senseless with it, and then I want to do it all over again.

Jennifer Ashley

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

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#14. Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

Laurie Metcalf

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

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

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#17. 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.

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#18. Proclaim a theology of divine righteousness which demands justice, respect, tolerance, compassion, inclusiveness, trust in the ultimate efficacy of divine zeal, and the rigorous pursuit of peace in the midst of competing interests and faith claims.

James A. Forbes

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

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#20. I don't know how to describe my sense of humor.

Michael Angarano

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

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

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

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

Luc Besson

#26. 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