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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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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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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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.
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no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.
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The blues have hope wrapped inside them.
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Steve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak.
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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.
