I saw Cara Delevingne like five, six times. And I was never talking about the film [Valerian]. And then at the end, I say okay, let's do some test. She says yeah, yeah, good. So I took her in the room, and I test her for like six hours non-stop. Exercise, exercise, exercise for six hours. It was actually funny. And then I knew at the end of the six hours.

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

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

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

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 do something that was entertaining - but with a catch.

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.