Valerian Quotes

• I was kind of surprised that, about 99 percent of the people grabbed the thing in Valerian.You know it's their thing. And I'm very impressed by that.

  

  Luc Besson
  • People
  • Grabbed
  • 99 percent

• Be humble and say okay, all right, I have to prep myself. So everybody prepped, and we finished the film Valerian four days before the end.

  

  Luc Besson
  • Film
  • Valerian

• My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists in Valerian who participated at every level.

  

  Luc Besson
  • Artists
  • Involvement
  • Valerian

• I saw Cara Delevingne like five, six times. And I was never talking about the film Valerian. And then at the end, I say okay, let's do some test. She says yeah, yeah, good. So I took her in the room, and I test her for like six hours non-stop. Exercise, exercise, exercise for six hours. It was actually funny. And then I knew at the end of the six hours.

  

  Luc Besson
  • Film
  • Valerian
  • Cara Delevingne

• That's the storyboard that we have in the beginning of Valerian. It's an easy shot. It's just a spaceship coming in. That's the first layout. On the first layout, we see the timing of the shot and the speed. It starts to get some shadows, and we see that everything is moving in the back.

  

  Luc Besson
  • Valerian
  • Spaceship
  • Storyboard

• We were so ready with Valerian that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.

  

  Luc Besson
  • History
  • Film
  • Sci-Fi

• 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.

  

  Luc Besson
  • Film
  • Actors
  • Aliens

• That's a KORTAN DAHUK. That's the first alien we see in the film Valerian. That's another artist. The first one was Chinese, the one with the space station. This one is American. Personally, that's my favorite alien. I love him. I love his profile and his face. There is such a sweetness and almost a sadness in his face.

  

  Luc Besson
  • Film
  • Alien
  • Kortan Dahur

• You know, it's not my film Valerian, it's really their film. It's very strange. And maybe because it's more when you comes to the Marvel films it's way much more organized and plan, you know, they planned. Okay, we have Thor here, we have this and then we do The Avengers, and then we group. You know, it's much more organized. So maybe there is a little less freedom at the end for the creative people. Where I did the entire opposite. I let them help me, you know. So that's also why maybe they were so involved.

  

  Luc Besson
  • Film
  • Valerian
  • Marvel films

• We have in Valerian a bible that's 600 pages. There are five pages on each alien and where they come from. Even the address you can check on the map. On the star map. It's real numbers.

  

  Luc Besson
  • Bible
  • Pages
  • Valerian

• I did The Fifth Element and Jean-Claude Mezieres, the artist of Valerian; he was working on Fifth Element. And he's actually the one who say, why don't you do Valerian? And I said because we can't make it. And you really have to wait for Avatar and to suddenly think oh okay, maybe we can think of it. But before Avatar, just forget it.

  

  Luc Besson
  • Artist
  • Fifth Element
  • Jean-Claude Mezieres