Sometimes I see people finish a film and they go, "Yeah, that was good. Where are we going to eat?"
Luc BessonCinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.
Luc BessonWhen 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 BessonI 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.
Luc Besson