My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists [in Valerian] who participated at every level.
You know, it's not my film [Valerian], it's really their film. It's very strange. And maybe because it's more when you comes to the Marvel films it's way much more organized and plan, you know, they planned. Okay, we have Thor here, we have this and then we do The Avengers, and then we group. You know, it's much more organized. So maybe there is a little less freedom at the end for the creative people. Where I did the entire opposite. I let them help me, you know. So that's also why maybe they were so involved.
We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.
I was kind of surprised that, about 99 percent of the people grabbed the thing [in Valerian]. You know it's their thing. And I'm very impressed by that.
Be humble and say okay, all right, I have to prep myself. So everybody prepped, and we finished the film [Valerian ] four days before the end.