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.”

“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.”

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

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

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