Doriane Besson Quotes

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

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

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. ~ Luc Besson

Why me?

He says: Because you are not like all the others, because I don't see anyone but you and you don't even realize it.

He adds this phrase, which for me is unforgettable: Because you will leave and we will stay. ~ Philippe Besson

This is important: he sees me in a certain way, a way he will never deviate from. In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become. ~ Philippe Besson

The question that imposed itself: Why me?
The image doesn't fit: my thick glasses, my stretched-out blue Nordic sweater, the student head slaps, the too-good grades, the feminine gestures. Why me?
He says: Because you are not like all the others, because I don't see anyone but you and you don't even realize it. ~ Philippe Besson

(And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.) ~ Philippe Besson

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

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

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

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

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

Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution. ~ Thomas Langmann

I would rather stop too soon than too late. ~ Luc Besson

I don't know then that one day I won't be seventeen. I don't know that youth doesn't last, that it's only a moment, and then it disappears and by the time you finally realize it, it's too late. It's finished, vanished, lost. There are some around me who can sense it; the adults repeat it constantly but I don't listen. Their words roll over me but don't stick. Like water off the feathers of a duck's back. I'm an idiot. An easygoing idiot. ~ Philippe Besson

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