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Luc Besson: Making movies the French way

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“In America, you can’t make a film where the Indians are the good guys and the cowboys are the bad guys… it’s about their “I was lucky to get nothing when I was young.” French writer/director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element), told Marc Fennell how learning to entertain himself as a kid in a household without a TV is actually what inspired his creativity.
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