Luc Besson Quotes
Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.
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If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.
