Luc Besson quotes

Luc Besson is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer famous for his visually innovative and stylish movies. His works include internationally acclaimed films such as "Léon: The Professional," "The Fifth Element," and "Lucy." He has significantly influenced European cinema and fostered many talents through his production company. Here are 23 of his quotes:

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

Luc Besson

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

Luc Besson

Learning's always a painful process.

Luc Besson

You humans act so strange. Everything you create is used to destroy.

Luc Besson

I would rather stop [making movies] too soon than too late.

Luc Besson

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

Luc Besson

Life was given to us a billion years ago. What have we done with it?

Luc Besson

You no trouble. Me... Fifth element... supreme being... me protect you.

Luc Besson

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

Luc Besson

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

Luc Besson

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

I AM EVERYWHERE.

Luc Besson

This film is extremely visual. It is difficult to describe in words without running the risk of losing or boring the reader. I have come up with a simplified summary, therefore, like a readers guide, which will conjure up the images in as few words as possible : - the beginning is Leon: The Professional - the middle is Inception - the end is 2001: A Space Odyssey Don't interpret this as pretension on my part, merely a visual, emotional and philosophical point of reference.

Luc Besson

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

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

Luc Besson

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. - Interview for The Huffpost (2017)

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Loving a film is like falling in love with a woman or with a man like you never expect 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. - Interview for The Collider (2016)

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Sometimes I see people finish a film and they go, "Yeah, that was good. Where are we going to eat?" - Interview for The Slashfilm (2016)

Luc Besson

"If you're a race runner, and you run, and progress, and you have the feeling that, yeah, you're pretty good. You watch your time, and every week you make it better, and there's a certain moment that you feel that maybe you can go to the Olympic games because you feel good. And then you watch TV and you see Usain Bolt. And then you say, ‘I'm not going to go this year, I'm going in four years'. - Interview for The Alarabiya (2017)

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"I like to start on time because I love to let the people go on time because they have families. They have kids and I don't want to abuse them for 2 hours. - Interview for The Cinemovie (2017)

Luc Besson