Words matter. These are the best Louis Leterrier Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.
My fear in converting it to 3-D is that people will say, ‘Oh, it’s the 3-D ‘Clash of the Titans.’ No, it’s ‘Clash of the Titans,’ the movie, and then, on top of that, you have the 3-D conversion. The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version.
My favorite moment is when someone says, ‘I like ‘Unleashed.’ ‘Now You See Me’ is so much fun.’ That’s what I want to do: smart, fun and big movies. I cannot lie, I love working with those big paint brushes. I have a blast doing these movies.
Even though I studied in New York and I know the American system, I come from France where I learned that with movies in France where the director is king. There’s no such thing as a studio edit. It’s the director’s cut, period.
I like the idea of a TV show. You take time to get to know your characters. You can introduce a lot of characters. You don’t need your three-action set pieces that you usually need for movies.
I’m stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I’m alone. Because in France, they’re like, ‘No, you’re not like us, you’re not a French guy.’ And in America, they’re like, ‘You’re not like us.’ I’m really alone in my little thing.
I’m one of the lucky directors that pretty much every movie I’ve done has started a franchise. But I never think this way. I think that’s the way you break it, if you go, ‘then at the end, at the end we’ll see you later.’ I was forced to do it in ‘Clash of the Titans.’
I’ll say it, I love working with actors, I’m a fan of actors. They bring so much, and they can also break a movie, but when it works I give it all to the actors. I’ll say it, I think that ‘The Transporter’ is great not because of my direction, it really is great because Jason Statham was great in it.
I talked to Marvel about ‘Thor’ at one point, but I didn’t want to do Thor. It wasn’t something I read growing up, really; it wasn’t one of the books I loved.
Frankly, with HBO and Showtime and cable shows, the DVD box sets and all, you can have a product that doesn’t make you feel like as soon as it’s projected, it’s thrown away. It’s really a piece of art.
French cinema has always been very interesting, and it’s still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it’s great to still have a cinema that doesn’t try to emulate, for example, American cinema.
It’s true, I’m the youngest, highest-grossing French director. I have a few records, but no one knows or simply doesn’t care. That’s good, because I like that. Ultimately, I want to keep working, making a lot of movies, and get better at it. It’s about finding great scripts and bringing them to life.
‘Captain America’ I love, and that would be great, but c’mon, a Frenchman doing ‘Captain America?’ They would burn my passport.
‘Iron Man’ was this fun, poppy thing bound to make a zillion dollars. And we were the other side of a superhero movie. More complex with The Hulk being this complex character – that’s what it was.
I love comedies, and I like sometimes comedies have a tendency to get a bit lazy. ‘The Other Guys’ was not lazy.
