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.

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

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

My concern 99% is about the storytelling, the emotion and all this. I never think about the format of anything until way far in the process and when we arrive to the fabrication of the thing then we start to say, "Okay right, what is the best thing we can do." I choose the car before to choose the color.

I did The Fifth Element and [Jean-Claude] Mezieres, the artist of Valerian; he was working on Fifth Element. And he's actually the one who say, why don't you do Valerian? And I said because we can't make it. And you really have to wait for Avatar and to suddenly think oh okay, maybe we can think of it. But before Avatar, just forget it.

Sometimes I see people finish a film and they go, "Yeah, that was good. Where are we going to eat?"

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