Luc Besson Quotations

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

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

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.

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 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.

I would rather stop too soon than too late.

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

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.

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

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.