Editing Luc Besson (section)

==Early life==
Besson was born in [[Paris]], to parents who both worked as [[Club Med]] [[scuba-diving]] instructors.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20120712054957/http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/B/Besson_Luc/2007/01/09/3255743.html Luc Besson on 'Arthur And The Invisibles']}} – CANOE</ref> Influenced by this, he planned to become a [[Marine biology|marine biologist]]. He spent much of his youth traveling with his parents to tourist resorts in [[Italy]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], and [[Greece]].<ref>"Luc Besson", ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2008.</ref> The family returned to France when he was 10. His parents divorced, and both remarried; of this, he said:

<blockquote>"Here there is two families, and I am the only bad souvenir of something that doesn't work," he said in the ''[[International Herald Tribune]]''. "And if I disappear, then everything is perfect. The rage to exist comes from here. I have to do something! Otherwise I am going to die."<ref name="iht.com">[http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/20/arts/20besson.php "Luc Besson: The most Hollywood of French filmmakers"], ''International Herald Tribune'', 20 May 2007</ref></blockquote>

At age 17, Besson had a diving accident that left him unable to dive.<ref name=Hayward1>{{cite book|last=Hayward|first=Susan|title=Luc Besson|year=1998|publisher=Manchester university press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NRs9hlrjMnwC&pg=PA42|location=Manchester|isbn=978-0-7190-5076-3|access-date=6 September 2011|page=42}}</ref> In a 2000 interview with ''[[The Guardian]]'', he described how this influenced his choice of career:

<blockquote><poem>"I was 17 and I wondered what I was going to do. ... So I took a piece of paper and on the left I put everything I could do, or had skills for, and all the things I couldn't do. The first line was shorter and I could see that I loved writing, I loved images, I was taking a lot of pictures. So I thought maybe movies would be good. But I thought that to really know I should go to a set. And a friend of mine knew a guy whose brother was a third assistant on a short film. It's true. So, I said: 'OK, let's go on the set.' So I went on the set. The day after I went back to see my mum and told her that I was going to make films and stop school and 'bye. And I did it! Very soon after I made a short film and it was very, very bad. I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one."<ref name="film.guardian.co.uk">[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/mar/23/guardianinterviewsatbfisouthbank1 Luc Besson interviewed by Richard Jobson] ''The Guardian''; accessed 20 July 2018.</ref></poem></blockquote>