Luc Besson Quotes
I have like 10 actors and 100 aliens in the film Valerian. And they come from the four corners of the universe. Some of them are liquid. Some of them are just so visually crazy.
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
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A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.
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'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'
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I love actors.
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I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.
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Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
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Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.
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Why was I worried? Because if, in everyday life, I was so embarrassed, so cautious, that I scarcely breathed, the diary produced in me a craving for truth. I thought that when one writes, it makes no sense to be contained, to censor oneself, and as a result I wrote mostly—maybe only—about what I would have preferred to be silent about, resorting among other things to a vocabulary that I would never have dared to use in speaking.
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I have like 10 actors and 100 aliens in the film Valerian. And they come from the four corners of the universe. Some of them are liquid. Some of them are just so visually crazy.
