Denis Villeneuve Quotes
I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said or having a flashback or something that explains. I think, in 'Prisoners,' we need to understand that Loki's character's past was not first class. He was not the first in his class.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'
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From the moment we are born our culture encourages us to believe that outer well-being is the source of inner fulfillment ... Wherever we turn the principle is confirmed, encouraging us to become 'human havings' and 'human doings' rather than human beings.
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We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.
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I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said or having a flashback or something that explains. I think, in 'Prisoners,' we need to understand that Loki's character's past was not first class. He was not the first in his class.
