Luc Besson Quotes
I try to follow my instinct as a moviegoer and I do the thing I would love to see it at a movie. I'm like everyone, almost, I go to a movie once a week. I like every kind of film if it’s well made. I’m fine. I’m not a specialist fighting for a genre of film. You just have to follow your instinct.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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I've always had questions about how things work and why it was that way. From all kinds of perspectives, from the physical to the spiritual.
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Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.
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Writing is very hard: there will be weeks where I have nothing to write, and days I will get out three issues of the comic book as far as the outlines. It is a matter of there is nothing you can do about it – if the inspiration hits, it hits. If it doesn’t, there is nothing you can do to bring it out.
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All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.
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I try to follow my instinct as a moviegoer and I do the thing I would love to see it at a movie. I'm like everyone, almost, I go to a movie once a week. I like every kind of film if it’s well made. I’m fine. I’m not a specialist fighting for a genre of film. You just have to follow your instinct.
