Every actor is different so you cannot become best friends on Day One. You just have to learn to know each other. Louis Leterrier More Quotes by Louis Leterrier More Quotes From Louis Leterrier I started as Jim Henson's number one fan. Louis Leterrier top-news What fantasy does is that it helps you understand your world, our world, through the prism of another civilization. Louis Leterrier top-news But my thing was never to emulate or to become the next' Game of Thrones,'. Louis Leterrier top-news 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. And then my job is almost done, with a great script, obviously. Louis Leterrier haircut job great you I feel like the great filmmakers who have a true voice, yeah they take the notes, they understand the notes, but it's really about the notes underneath the notes. When you do a test screening and somebody says, 'Well, I didn't like the love story,' but it was probably just too long. Louis Leterrier great you love long I've started movies without screenplays both on 'Clash' and on 'Hulk,' and that is tremendously stressful because you have a tendency to overcompensate with effects. You haven't tested it in your head. You didn't run it over and over again and covered all of the plot holes and figure it out. It's a marathon that you sprint. Louis Leterrier your movies you marathon '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. 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It's really a piece of art. Louis Leterrier feel like you art I did my 'Hulk,' but it was not easy. If I do another Hulk film it will always be compared to the Ang Lee thing, and my first one... if I come back, I'd love to do another superhero, something different that I can really put my touch on. Louis Leterrier will i-can easy love 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. Louis Leterrier loved something growing-up want
