Louis Leterrier
Louis Leterrier
Louis Leterrieris a French film director whose films include the first two Transporter films, Unleashed, The Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titansand Now You See Me...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth17 June 1973
CountryFrance
cooking together actors
Directing is like cooking, it's like cuisine. You cannot make a great dish with bad ingredients. I have great actors, and I'm putting them together. That's all I'm doing.
real fake shooting
It's funny, I started by making fake American movies, 'The Transporter' and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything was in English. But then afterwards, I was looking at real French movies like the Jacques Audiard movies.
powerful thinking interesting
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.
guy lazy comedy
I love comedies, and I like sometimes comedies have a tendency to get a bit lazy. The Other Guys was not lazy.
moving actors location
Great actors are so easy to direct. It's like they're big 747s that you just have to move left and right, and I don't really need to direct. I need to put them in the right costume, with the right haircut, in the right location, and with the right actor to act with.
get-better records care
Its true, Im the youngest, highest-grossing French director. I have a few records, but no one knows or simply doesnt care. Thats good, because I like that. Ultimately, I want to keep working, making a lot of movies, and get better at it. Its about finding great scripts and bringing them to life.
school practice film
When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.
baby stars war
I'm a 'Clash of the Titans'/'Star Wars' baby. I'm not a new 'Star Wars' baby. I'm not an 'Avatar' baby. That full CG doesn't work for me. I need interactivity. I need to feel the goo. I need to feel people coming out of animatronics and just interacting with props.
becomes watch
If you watch the movie and you know he's gay, it becomes so much more fun,
cut drive looking realized
The first cut was 2:10. It was boring. You know, they're looking each other, 'Should I drive now?' Then I realized that it's a thrill-ride of a movie, let's really make it a thrill-ride of a movie.
coming full people work
I'm a 'Clash of the Titans'/'Star Wars' baby. I'm not a new 'Star Wars' baby. I'm not an 'Avatar' baby. That full CG doesn't work for me. I need interactivity. I need to feel the goo. I need to feel people coming out of animatronics and just interacting with props.