Louis Leterrier
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"Louis Leterrier" is a French film director whose films include the first two The Transporter/Transporter films, Unleashed (film)/Unleashed (2005), The Incredible Hulk (film)/The Incredible Hulk (2008), Clash of the Titans (2010 film)/Clash of the Titans (2010) and Now You See Me (film)/Now You See Me (2013).

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'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?' .

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.

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.

That's him coming out!

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.

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.

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.

The first cut was 2:10. It was boring. You know, they're looking each other, 'Should I drive now?' Then I realized that it's a thrill-ride of a movie, let's really make it a thrill-ride of a movie.

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?'