My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists [in Valerian] who participated at every level. Luc Besson More Quotes by Luc Besson More Quotes From Luc Besson 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. Luc Besson wall mean people 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. Luc Besson life-experience live-your-life hollywood What a director is looking for is someone who will follow you and no matter what. And if you ask for blue, he's gonna try blue. And if you say, give me a piece of red with it, and they try. And you don't mind so much if it's difficult to get the blue and the red together. As long as they try. And as long as they give everything they can to give you what you want. That's what I'm looking for. Luc Besson blue giving long Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin. Luc Besson aspirin medicine cinema I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film. Luc Besson honest film thinking You know, money will never save anyone. Compassion can save someone, love can save someone, money will never save anyone. And as long as the entire society will put money first... Money should be like third or fourth or fifth, I'm not saying lets get rid of money, but how can we put money as number one? As the only value, like if you are rich, you're famous you go VIP, why? It's just insane, the way we've transformed the society. Luc Besson insane compassion long 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. Luc Besson film able reason 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 creative opposites people I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money. Luc Besson driven thinking I'm always attracted by people who are lost in their time. I think it helps us. Luc Besson helping people thinking 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 shadow moving firsts We talked a lot with the musician. And for now there are few options, and I give him few weeks to come and surprise me with something. I don't want to start and say, okay here is what I want. Because maybe he has an idea that is better than mine. Luc Besson musician giving ideas I wanted to do something that was entertaining - but with a catch. Luc Besson entertaining wanted 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 waiting thinking I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial. Luc Besson artistic intellectual thinking After six, seven films, I started to get a little tired. Shooting takes a lot out of you. Luc Besson shooting tired littles You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad. Luc Besson turns risk sometimes 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. Luc Besson lucky goal would-be 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. Luc Besson film able facts We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film. Luc Besson ready sci-fi film
