Luc Besson Quotes
I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
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I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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I cry at films and TV and even adverts.
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TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.
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I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
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I love doing kids' films.
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All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
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I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.
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If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
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I prefer doing feature films.
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I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.
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Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.
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My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too arty-farty for them, certainly the ones I do!
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In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
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I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.
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I have died in enough TV and films.
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I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.
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I've always been much more of a guitar picker, but I began to feel forced into a position of being the epitome of a rock & roll guitarist. Originally, TYA wanted to make it without having to compromise to pop. It worked for a while, but after five or six years, the fun went out of it for me; a lot of the music went out of it.
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Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
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If you have something that people connect with, you want to keep telling that story and progressing forward.
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I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.
