'The Transporter' 1 and 2 are the movies I do for Luc — they're not the kind I would go see or make naturally, ... You ask Luc, 'How do you want me to do it?' |
Corey said, 'You know Louis, I won't be able to do it,' ... 'If Luc finds out, I'm gonna get fired and so are you.' |
FIU had the biggest pool in the area, ... It was the first choice and it was the best choice. |
Frank Martin gave up on his old, former occupation transporting for the mafia, [and now] he just wants to have a straight life. [Martin] is the chauffeur for a kid and the kid gets kidnapped and he has to get the kid, |
He is the Transporter. Without Jason Statham, this movie would be a straight-to-video ... horrible film. At least the first one, you know, I was so afraid, when I read the screenplay, of what it was. Then Jason came in. |
He's a super, super professional. He will go over and over a scene again. He can become black and blue. In one scene, we did more than 150 shots in two days. That was crazy for an action scene. He was hurting so much. But he knew we had to have this scene and he knew this would be one of the best fights of the movie, so he kept on going, and at the end of the day he almost fainted. He was in so much pain. |
I don't want it to be 'Oh, that's the one-shot movie,' ... I don't want to show my directing. I want a great story. A great screenplay. I want it to be amazing. Then, when audience members go see it, they're really entertained and hypnotized for an hour-and-a-half. They come out and their friends say, 'Did you realize the camera never cut back-and-forth?' |
I don't want to be Luc's henchman. I want to look for freedom. |
I think the next level of action movies is actually something I'm working on. It's a one-shot, continuous, hour-and-a-half action movie, non-stop. You don't cut away. |
I've done three action films but that's the pivotal moment, |
If you watch the movie and you know he's gay, it becomes so much more fun, |
Jason is very much like that. He's very fun, happy and he's real. He's very grounded and knows he fell into acting by accident. |
Now I'm going to put this all together. |
That's him coming out! |
That's what's good about this character. I love James Bond, but I hate that he's a misogynist chauvinistic pig. He goes from one woman to the next, cheats on her, doesn't care. I hate that. The Transporter is like the working man's James Bond. He is the real man. |