A cult director of films “The Blue Lagoon,” “Nikita,” “Leon,” “The Fifth Element,” “Taxi,” “Joan of Arc,” and others. Luc Besson sincerely and effortlessly recounts the first thirty years of his life. For the first time, he speaks so openly about his parents, about an unhappy and drifting childhood, about the loneliness of a little boy, about his love of dolphins, and about his passion for music and cinema. Besson recalls the day when—against his mother’s wishes—he quit school and went to Paris to make films. That act marked the beginning of his desperate struggle to make his first feature film and claim his place in the world of cinema. In the audiobook, you’ll hear a story about how a teenager, having neither support nor foundation and escaping reality into dreams, managed to determine his profession—how greedily he learned the craft from everyone involved in the world of cinema: directors, cameramen, and lighting technicians. How a big artist grew out of small everyday stories; how images were born from emotional wounds and disappointments and went on to enter the treasury of world culture forever.