Luc Besson Quotations

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.

I would rather stop too soon than too late.

After six, seven films, I started to get a little tired. Shooting takes a lot out of you.

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

I'm always attracted by people who are lost in their time. I think it helps us.

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head.

Obviously at 11 she didn't smoke, she was against it. She was already responsible. She said: ""I don't want to show kids that I am smoking.

I'm still wet... no, no... I want to produce. I produce about three or four films a year.

I think that I am a collaborative fascist. With Natalie it was different, she was only 11-years-old and Leon was her first film. And it's about a young girl who takes guns and shoots everywhere, so her parents were very scared, they didn't know me very well.

There are a few directors that I really loved who made like five, six great movies, but are still shooting and they're not good anymore and I'm sad.

So we had like five screens and people loved it and sent their friends and then the Japanese called and said: ""We want the long version, please.

In my head, the fact that I have only two more films to make is pushing me. I say: "Oh my God, I've only got two more films so I have to say something that I really mean and I have to put it all in the last two films." The last two will be very good, I hope.

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

The famous line about the French king was that he didn't even know what was going on. He said: "Is it a revolt?" And the other guy said: "No, it's a revolution." The king was thinking it was nothing.

I love that because I work one hour per day. And I see the director at the end of the day and I just say: "Oh yes, change this, and that's good, fine... " It's great, I love that.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

I don't want to show kids that I am smoking.

When I got the camera on the shoulder, they give me a nickname. They call me 'the tripod' because I'm kind of short and kind of strong. So if I take the camera and I lock myself, you think that you're on a crane.

I wanted to do something that was entertaining - but with a catch.

I won't be able to do a film just for bad reasons, for money or for - I just can't. If I have one more where I feel I can bring you something, I will do it.

Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.

I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film.